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CORRECTION article

Front. Psychol., 11 August 2025

Sec. Cognitive Science

Volume 16 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1651358

Correction: How and why humans trust: A meta-analysis and elaborated model

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  1. How and why humans trust: A meta-analysis and elaborated model

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P. A. Hancock P. A. Hancock1*Theresa T. KesslerTheresa T. Kessler2Alexandra D. KaplanAlexandra D. Kaplan2Kimberly StowersKimberly Stowers3J. Christopher BrillJ. Christopher Brill4Deborah R. BillingsDeborah R. Billings5Kristin E. SchaeferKristin E. Schaefer6James L. SzalmaJames L. Szalma2
  • 1Department of Psychology and Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
  • 2Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States
  • 3Department of Management, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
  • 4United States Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, NV, United States
  • 5Broky Consulting, LLC, Hillsboro, OR, United States
  • 6DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Adelphi, MD, United States

A Correction on
How and why humans trust: A meta-analysis and elaborated model

by Hancock, P. A., Kessler, T. T., Kaplan, A. D., Stowers, K., Brill, J. C., Billings, D. R., Schaefer, K. E., and Szalma, J. L. (2023) Front. Psychol. 14:1081086. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1081086

There was a mistake in Figure 9 as published. The incorrect figure was published. The corrected Figure 9 appears below.

Figure 9
Model illustrating factors influencing human trust. It demonstrates that a willingness to engage in trusting behavior is predicated upon a variety of trustee, trustor, and contextual factors as well as by the perceived trustworthiness of the trustee, and the trustor's propensity to trust. Finally, perception of risk influences the trustor's willingness to engage in a trusting behavior. All of this results in the trust interaction outcome.

Figure 9. Revised model for factors influencing trust. Model is revised from Mayer et al. (1995). Solid lines and solid boxes demonstrate concepts previously uncovered as factors exerting force on trust between people. Dotted lines and boxes demonstrate those newly uncovered factors which were found to affect trust between people. The width of the dotted lines demonstrates the extent to which the factors have an effect on trust.

Supplemental material Appendix A: Studies Used in this Meta-Analysis was omitted. The Supplemental material file has been updated in the original article.

The original version of this article has been updated.

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Keywords: trustors, trustees, meta-analysis, trust, dispositional trust

Citation: Hancock PA, Kessler TT, Kaplan AD, Stowers K, Brill JC, Billings DR, Schaefer KE and Szalma JL (2025) Correction: How and why humans trust: A meta-analysis and elaborated model. Front. Psychol. 16:1651358. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1651358

Received: 21 June 2025; Accepted: 23 July 2025;
Published: 11 August 2025.

Edited and reviewed by: Agata Gasiorowska, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

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*Correspondence: P. A. Hancock, cGV0ZXIuaGFuY29ja0B1Y2YuZWR1

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