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trust  

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  • Trust is commonly described as a leap of faith one takes in the face of incomplete information. More specifically, trust is a psychological state involving positive expectations about another's actions despite vulnerability to the other's actions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Trust]

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