Introduction: Trust is one of the mostimportant synthetic forces within society. Conceptually, trust is also attributableto relationships within and betweensocial groups (history, families, friends, communities, organizations, companies, nations, etc. ). It is a popular approachto frame the dynamics of inter-groupand intra-group interactions in termsof trust. There is a general consensusamong contemporary social scientiststhat social trust is important, as thesmall flood of recent publications on thetopic shows. The interest in trust covers, unusually, in the increasingly fragmentedand specialized academic world, sociology, political science, economics, psychology, history, political theory andphilosophy, management and organizationstudies, and anthropology. ...