Introduction: Introducing Ethnographies of Trusting

Broch-Due, Vigdis; Ystanes, Margit

doi:10.1515/9781785331008-003

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“…This process is embedded in and influenced by its social context. What constitutes being worthy of trust is socially negotiated [36,37] and varies across cultures [38,39] and over time [40]. The individual evaluates trust in terms determined by norms and expectations established by their group memberships, history and future objectives.…”

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Psychometric evaluation of the Trust in Science and Scientists Scale

Wolff,

Breakwell,

Wright

2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Reliable and valid measurement of trust in science and scientists is important. Assessing levels of such trust is important in determining attitudes and predicting behaviours in response to medical and scientific interventions targeted at managing public crises. However, trust is a complex phenomenon that has to be understood in relation to both distrust and mistrust. The Trust in Science and Scientists Scale has been adopted with increasing frequency in large-scale public health research. Detailed psychometric evaluation of the scale is overdue and makes meaningful comparisons between studies that use the scale difficult. Here, we examine the scale’s dimensionality across five separate samples. We find that two factors emerge that are divided by their item polarity. Implications for scale use and trust in science measurement are discussed.

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