Definitions of distrust typically use trust as the reference point. Consider the distrust defined as "confident negative expectations regarding another's conduct" (Lewicki et al., 1998, p. 439). As such, most researchers conceptualise trust and distrust as "antithetical" (Bigley and Pearce, 1998, p. 407), at mutually exclusive ends of a single, continuous construct (Migliore and Horton DeClouette, 2011). According to […]

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