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I will underline the real complexity of trust (not for mere theoretical purposes but for advanced applications), and I will criticize some of those reductionist view of Trust. I will illustrate: how trust can be a disposition, but also is an ‘evaluation’, and also a ‘prediction’ or better an ‘expectation’; and how it is a ‘decision’ and an ‘action’, and ‘counting on’ (relying) and ‘depending on’ somebody; and which is the link with uncertainty and risk taking (fear and hope); how it creates social relationships; how it is a dynamic phenomenon with loop-effects; how it derives from several sources.
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Castelfranchi, C. (2006). Why We Need a Non-reductionist Approach to Trust. In: Stølen, K., Winsborough, W.H., Martinelli, F., Massacci, F. (eds) Trust Management. iTrust 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11755593_1
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