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Developing Trust

The Idea of Trust

This Web page by Claude Brodeur relates trust to emotional security.

Interpersonal Trust

This page of links, developed by Carter McNamara for the Free Management Library, emphasizes trust in business relationships.

Martin Buber

Trust is one of the core concepts of Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue. Buber explains how personal relationships transcend an I-It perspective to enter into dialogue of I and Thou. The Martin Buber home page offers links about the importance of trust in an I-Thou relationship.

Assessment of trust in intimate relationships and the self-perception process. Ann Marie Zak, Joel A. Gold, Richard M. Ryckman and Ellen Lenney. The Journal of Social Psychology, April 1998 v138 n2 p217(12).

Assessments of trust in intimate relationships are often based on perceptions of a partner's behaviors; however, people's own actions, increased self-awareness, and individual differences may also affect levels of trust. InfoTrac.

 

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