Short answers, pulled from the story.
Trust is the belief that another person will do what is expected and is built through repeated consistency. It brings with it a willingness for one party to become vulnerable to another party on the presumption that the trustee will act in ways that benefit the trustor.
Interest in trust has grown significantly since the early 1980s from the early works of Luhmann Barber and Giddens. Several dozen studies have examined the impact of ethnic diversity on social trust since this period.
Experimenters who digitally manipulated facial resemblance found evidence that people have more trust in a partner who has similar facial features. Facial resemblance also decreased sexual desire for a partner while influencing evaluations within long-term or short-term relationships.
Trust can act as an economic lubricant reducing the cost of transactions between parties enabling new forms of cooperation and generally furthering business activities employment and prosperity. The World Economic Forums of 2022 and 2024 both adopted the rebuilding of trust as their themes.
The first dimension distinguishes between cognition-based trust based on rational calculation and affect-based trust based on emotional attachment. The second dimension distinguishes between the trustworthiness factors that give rise to trust and trust itself.