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Sociopsychological Approach to Trust (or Distrust): Concluding Comments

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As concluding comments to the present book, we would like to suggest that although the contributors provided many different angles to shed light on the nature of trust and distrust and then specifically on the essence of trust, or especially distrust, in the Israeli Jewish--Palestinian relations, one common denominator is found in every contribution: Namely all of them recognize that trust and distrust are sociopsychological concepts. In view of this shared commonality we would like to provide a sociopsychological conceptual framework of trust and distrust as a concluding statement.

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    Siege mentality pertains to the experience of being under siege, expressed in a belief that the rest of the world has highly negative intentions towards the own society (Bar-Tal and Antebi 1992).

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Bar-Tal, D., Alon, I. (2016). Sociopsychological Approach to Trust (or Distrust): Concluding Comments. In: Alon, I., Bar-Tal, D. (eds) The Role of Trust in Conflict Resolution. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43355-4_17

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