Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Trust: Towards Theoretical and Methodological Integration

 This timely collection explores trust research from many angles while ably demonstrating the potential of cross-discipline collaboration to deepen our understanding of institutional trust. Citing, among other things, current breakdowns of trust in prominent institutions, the book presents a multilevel model identifying universal aspects of trust as well as domain- and context-specific variations deserving further study. Contributors analyze similarities and differences in trust across public domains from politics and policing to medicine and science, and across languages and nations. Innovative strategies for measuring and assessing trust also shed new light on this essentially human behavior.

 

Highlights of the coverage:

• Consensus on conceptualizations and definitions of trust: are we there yet?
• Differentiating between trust and legitimacy in public attitudes towards legal authority.
• Examining the relationship between interpersonal and institutional trust in political and health care contexts.
• Trust as a multilevel phenomenon across contexts.
• Institutional trust across cultures.
• The “dark side” of institutional trust.

With its stimulating array of concepts and applications, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Trust will attract a varied audience, among them experts in political science, criminal justice, psychology, law, economics, healthcare, sociology, public administration,

cross-cultural studies, and business administration.

 Dr. Ellie Shockley is a postdoctoral fellow at the Public Policy Center. Dr. Shockley earned a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Chicago in 2013. Her primary research interests focus on political psychology and social identity (e.g., racial identity). She is especially interested in how cognitive biases, motivated reasoning, and group identities influence people’s attitudes toward institutions, policies, etc.

Dr. Tess M. S. Neal is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the Public Policy Center. She is both a researcher and a clinician (State of Nebraska License # 844). She obtained her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at The University of Alabama in 2012 and completed a clinical-forensic postdoctoral residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 2012-2013.

Dr. Lisa PytlikZillig received both her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is certified in Specialized Alternative Dispute Resolution, Family Mediation, and Basic Mediation. Lisa is a contracted mediator for The Mediation Center in Lincoln, NE. Her area of interest is conflict resolution, including its overlap with the study of affect regulation, critical thinking, motivation, prosocial behavior, public participation, trust, and technology.

Dr. Brian H. Bornstein is Professor of Psychology and Courtesy Professor of Law at UNL. He started at the university in 2000. He is a member of th

e Law-Psychology, Social, and Cognitive psychology programs. He has served as Interim Director of the Social-Personality and Law-Psychology programs and is presently Associate Director of the Law-Psychology program. Dr. Bornstein teaches courses on human memory, psychology and law, decision making, and history of psychology at the graduate and undergraduate levels.