"Interpersonal Trust: What Are We Talking About, What Are We Measuring, and Where Are We Going?"

Trust is essential for effective personal and professional relationships, and a substantial literature has studied the antecedents and consequences of trust. Most of this research has adopted a shared definition of trust: the willingness to be vulnerable based upon positive expectations of the intentions or behavior of another (Davis, Mayer, & Schoorman, 1995; Rousseau, Sitkin, Burt, & Camerer, 1998). Although trust scholars have converged on a...