and empirically to the concepts of tolerance and trust, with the aim of illustrating what might emerge from a more … disapproval of homosexuality, and similar results are found for other ‘others’. With trust, the evidence shows that not only … individual but also national differences in the perceived fairness of others have substantial effects. To the extent that trust …

Many students of trust see it as a way to mitigate risk through the development of strong institutions that create … trust. I offer an alternative view of trust, moralistic or generalized trust, that depends upon a psychological foundation … of optimism and control. This form of trust, in contrast to arguments by Paldam and others, has “value” independent of …

">1988</CitationRef>)—trust, social interaction, and norms and sanctions—influences individual happiness across European countries and … happiness appear to be informal social interaction and general social, as well as institutional trust. And third, there are …

obtained over 50 % of the attainable scores in the ‘trust’, ‘cooperation’, ‘social cohesion’, and ‘political action’ dimensions … had higher trust scores than respondents in the 18–25 age group. Men had higher ‘network’ and ‘social cohesion’ scores …

dimension of social capital such as identity, empowerment, cooperation and public benefit, trust, cooperative management …

In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body … determinants of social capital in general, and trust in particular. We present new cross-country and panel data evidence of another … important determinant of trust—the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require …