The Lost ARC / Unit 11 ARC 251 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Distrust Is Not the Absence of Trust
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The idea
Roy Lewicki, Daniel McAllister and Robert Bies argued in nineteen ninety-eight that distrust is not merely the absence of trust but a distinct state of its own.
In practice
An active expectation that someone will act with harmful intent, incompetence or indifference to your welfare.
Where people slip
The book draws the implication: trust and distrust are separate dimensions, not two ends of one line.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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