Interpersonal Trust as Individual Choice With Social Interactions

Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons

“…16 In other words, it is the probability that two members of a population, chosen at random, do not share the same religious affiliation. For 11 Following the literature, we do not consider the Iranian World Values Survey data as credible (Uslaner, 2002;Bjørnskov, 2007;Singh, 2008). If we include Iran with the 2005 trust score, the negative relationship between RELIMP and trust can, if anything, be expected to be strengthened, since the country's trust measure is low and RELIMP measure high.…”