“…Trust can effectively reduce the uncertainties experienced by customers in the process of purchase decision making, and develop customers' belief in the reliability, honesty, profession, and integrity of a brand, thereby affecting customers' attitudinal loyalty and behavioral loyalty (Chaudhuri and Holbrook, 2001;Nyffenegger et al, 2014;Lombart and Louis, 2016). Brand trust is an important predictive variable of customer loyalty (Pan et al, 2012;Coelho et al, 2018). However, there is some controversy over whether brand trust directly affects brand loyalty (Chaudhuri and Holbrook, 2001;Lombart and Louis, 2016) or whether there are mediating factors at play (Aurier and Séré de Lanauze, 2012;Yasin and Shamim, 2013;Huang and Jian, 2015).…”