ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the unique influences on trust calibration in military STAT contexts. It adopts an integrated understanding of trust as a psychological attitudinal state held by an individual about another person or persons that involves expectations and feelings of vulnerability and risk. The chapter elaborates how theorizing can be expanded via consideration of a set of important contextual factors that are part of the military operational environment. It describes several environmental variables that STATs are likely to encounter and how each of these influences could change the way trust attitudes are formed within the team. The chapter proposes that, more specifically, trust levels are calibrated in that team members become aware of the perceived levels of ability, benevolence, and integrity of other team members and adjust their own behaviors accordingly. The training recommendations in the chapter leverage the repetitive conditioning training the military already uses for training operating and decision making under pressure.
