ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the issue of how trust could be promoted or violations of trust be repaired. It includes a summary of research bearing on building trust between opposing nations, different religions, between parents and their children, within the person, and between older adults and future generations. The chapter culminates in the confirmation that trust is an essential facet of our modern world. Lindskold's review highlights the significance of building objective credibility and the attributions of trustworthiness in the exchanges proposed by graduated reciprocity in tension reduction (GRIT) to achieve disarmament between countries. Although GRIT is a promising strategy for building trust between opposing nations and disarmament, its effectiveness remains to be shown. The findings confirmed that both the quantity and quality of intergroup interaction statistically predicted trust in the religious outgroup, which statistically predicted positive behavioural tendencies towards the religious outgroup.
