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Interpersonal trust is about whether you believe that most people can be trusted. According to Uslaner (2001) trust is not dependent on ad hoc experiences, i.e. attitudes towards other people is quite stable and gained experience by interacting with others does not affect the level of trust significantly. The grounds set early in life and trust in other people is not affected by affections.
Generalized trust is the belief that most people can be trusted while particular trust includes trust only for those who are like oneself. Particular trust can exacerbate conflicts between groups because it causes differences between the groups to be highlighted while generalized trust has a positive effect on people's engagement in society. To socialize with like-minded does not mean that one automatically trusts people one do not know. The single most important factor to increase generalized trust is to make people believe in a good future. When people regard the future as good the trust for other people, strangers and friends, increase (Uslaner 2001, 573).
====The effect of trust and empathy on changing opinion====
Marina Lindell expect that empathy and trust are conducive to opinion moderation. Following Mutz (2002, 121), she expect that people who can see things from other people's perspectives – and have high levels of trust as well - are open to consider opinions that differ from their own. Conversely, people with low levels of empathy and trust are expected to polarize more frequently<ref>Marina Lindell, 2014, What Drives the Polarization and Moderation of Opinions? Evidence from a Finnish Citizen Experiment on Immigration</ref>.
==Epistemic Considerations==