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Types of Trust

15 January, 2016 - 09:16

Svenn Lindskold describes four kinds of trust (1978):

  • Objective credibility.A personal characteristic that reflects the truthfulness of an individual that can be checked against observable facts.
  • Attribution of benevolence. A form of trust that is built on the examination of the person’s motives and the conclusion that they are not hostile.
  • Non-manipulative trust. A form of trust that correlates to a person’s self-interest and the predictability of a person’s behavior in acting consistent in that self-interest.
  • High cost of lying. The type of trust that emerges when persons in authority raise the cost of lying so high that people will not lie because the penalty will be too high.