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Topic: Distrust


In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
  Distrust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Distrust is a formal way of not trusting any one party too much in a situation of grave risk or deep doubt.
Distrust should not be confused with mistrust, which is believing that a particular party has a hidden agenda.
Corporate governance relies on distrust insofar as the board is not to trust the reports it receives from management, but is empowered to investigate them, challenge them, and otherwise act on behalf of shareholders vs. managers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Distrust   (445 words)

  
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Distrust is likely to increase with the magnitude of the violation, the number of past violations, and the perception that the offender intended to commit the violation.
Distrust leads the parties to reduce their willingness to share information and engage in problem solving in conflict situations, and hence to distributive bargaining approaches with the other party, an approach that usually overlooks integrative, value-creating opportunities.
Properly analyzing the source of distrust is critical because the originating events and circumstances may be significantly different from the ways the parties understand and express their differences, and because this analysis is the foundation for an effective solution.
www.beyondintractability.org /essay/distrust   (4713 words)

  
 The prevalent distrust of science
An account of the now common distrust of science, an explanation of its origins and a suggestion of what may,and indeed, should be done about it.
Distrust of science is still alarmingly prevalent, which conflicts with reasonable expectation.
To me the centrepiece of the article is the phrase that "to represent the nature of human beings by a description of their genes undermines their dignity as human beings" and that "research in human genetics" is therefore to be opposed.
www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/maddox1.html   (4178 words)

  
 distrust
You judge it is likely that someone may not do what you expect him or her to do (or not do, perform, or such), and maybe even do something élse instead, ánd that the outcome will be unpleasant for you.
Distrust is based on former experiences in which there actually turned out to be a difference between your expectations and what really happened.
Distrust is aimed at preventing these unpleasant experiences or at least diminish them as much as possible.
www.thebecompany.com /mistrust.htm   (344 words)

  
 Introduction and Summary: How Americans View Government
Distrust of government and discontent with the country notwithstanding, there is no indication that these attitudes are near a crisis stage.
And distrust of government is not fostering a disregard for the nation's laws, eroding patriotism or discouraging government service.
Americans are now as distrustful of their national government as are the European publics, but remarkably remain less distrustful than Europeans of their political leaders.
people-press.org /reports/display.php3?ReportID=95   (3662 words)

  
 Distrust Quotes & Quotations compiled by GIGA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
This feeling of distrust is always the last which a great mind acquires; he is deceived for a long time.
www.giga-usa.com /gigaweb1/quotes2/qutopdistrustx001.htm   (503 words)

  
 Managing Interpersonal Trust and Distrust
In contrast to distrust, where conflict escalates due to each party's sinister attributions toward the other, trust building is a process that can replace suspicion and defensiveness with benevolence and cooperation.
In the distrust and trust-building essays, we describe the origins of distrust and trust, the effects of violated expectations for each, and the process of rebuilding damaged trust and tempering distrust.
Separate content analyses examined two themes in the distrust literature: a) dimensions of distrust are opposite dimensions of trust, and b) distrust is a violation of trust.
www.beyondintractability.org /essay/trust_overview/?nid=1209   (1101 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Distrust
When that is likely, however, distrust plays a role in minimizing the power of specific others with roles in "the system".
The judicial branch and legislative branch of government had formally defined roles in which they distrusted each other's judgement, had veto power, etc..
This suggests that distrust may enable dissent, and that a system incorporating a lot of distrust is also likely to generate a lot of empowered citizens keeping it honest.
wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=distrust   (599 words)

  
 Distrust
Distrust was a problem in all three cases, but was especially strong in the relationship between Israel and Egypt before the Camp David mediation process.
This story of a standoff between a well-armed extremist group and the police highlights the problem of distrust, which was one of several causes of failed negotiations and violence.
Distrust was one of several factors that fueled the Cold War.
www.colorado.edu /conflict/peace/problem/distrust.htm   (460 words)

  
 Improve mutual trust between stepsiblings.
Note the value of distinguishing who your child distrusts: there's a major difference between your boy or girl not trusting their stepsibling, and distrusting you to not betray them by liking (respecting, enjoying, appreciating, loving, preferring) this new kid "better" than them.
You also may not _ be clear and _ united enough in defining each of your co-parenting roles (caregiving responsibilities.) Finally, one or more of you may not yet be aware of the four concurrent sets of needs that typical stepkids (like yours) have.
When distrust is chronic and excessive, it blocks healthy bonding and relationships among all affected stepfamily members.
sfhelp.org /Rx/sibs/distrust.htm   (3483 words)

  
 Why Minorities Distrust Employers' Promotion Policies and Practices -
"Distrust develops when people can't understand why or how some people are getting promoted and others aren't, especially if it seems like qualified people are getting passed over for equally or less-qualified candidates in a nonminority group," Kaplan explains.
Distrust is widespread even among groups the report doesn't mention, such as Asian Americans or gays/lesbians, says Lenox.
Its origins vary with the treatment a particular group has experienced and are based on "faulty assumptions about intelligence, learning capacity and leadership capacity," she adds.
diversity.monster.com /articles/promotionpolicy   (854 words)

  
 Distrust - Security and privacy issues on the web
Distrust is a Firefox extension that came to fill the need to privacy on your computer.
Distrust aims to create a silent browsing experience which means that the browser should leave the computer as it was when browsing began.
Also Distrust does not delete the list in the Javascript Console, why not, I thought you claim it leaves the Firefox browser as though one had not surfed the net.
www.gness.com /distrust/?page_id=13   (2476 words)

  
 Epidemic Distrust
We seem to assume that our elected leaders are acting in their own best interest, that the banks will use any means at their disposal to take unfair advantage of us, that the legal system is set up for the benefit of the criminals and the lawyers and that this is the norm.
Whether people distrust the social and political institutions depends largely on how well things are going in their country.
I think there is a major difference between distrusting the power of governments and institutions and the assumption of dishonesty in those same groups.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/socialissues/108695   (836 words)

  
 Propagation of Trust and Distrust
In the absence of treatment of distrust in prior work, it is unclear how to model and propagate distrust.
Merely shifting all trust scores so that no negative values remain (and then using a trust propagation method such as [14]) will not address this fundamental issue; such a ``shift'' would be sensitive to outliers and additionally distort the semantics of a zero score.
Distrust was introduced about six months after the initial launch, in part to deal with this problem.
www.tomkinshome.com /papers/trust/final/p423-guha.htm   (5951 words)

  
 School Polls
Americans may say they distrust government, but a new survey by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government casts doubt on what they really mean when they say that: Most Americans, the survey found, want more government involvement and more government regulation to solve the nation's problems.
The survey found that nearly a quarter of American adults believe that the federal government is a major threat to their personal rights and freedoms, and nearly half think it is at least some threat.
As major reasons for their distrust, a majority points to government waste and inefficiency (73%), partisan bickering (68%), special interests having too much influence (65%), a lack of honesty and integrity among elected officials (64%), and high taxes (57%).
www.npr.org /programs/specials/poll/govt/summary.html   (1881 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Distrust (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust, Vol. 8): Books: Russell Hardin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Indeed, distrust is the preferred response when it protects against harm—as when parents do not entrust the safety of their child to a disreputable caretaker.
Liberal political theory was largely founded on distrust of government, and the assumption that government cannot and should not be trusted led the framers of the U.S. constitution to establish a set of institutions explicitly designed to limit government power.
Edna Ullman-Margalit succinctly defines distrust as the negation of trust, and examines the neutral state between the two responses in interpersonal relations.
www.amazon.com /Distrust-Russell-Foundation-Trust-Vol/dp/0871543508   (922 words)

  
 Bush: accounting 'distrust' hurts stocks - Jun. 21, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bush told reporters in Orlando, Fla., he believed the vast majority of U.S. corporations were honest about their assets and liabilities and was confident in the future of the U.S. economy and that the accounting problems were being addressed.
Ninety-five percent, or some percentage, huge percentage, of the business community are honest and reveal all of their assets, (have) got compensation programs that are balanced, but there are some bad apples," Bush said.
The U.S. stock market, which fell to its lowest levels of the year on Thursday, declined again on Friday because of distrust of corporate balance sheets and worries that corporate profit growth will continue to be sluggish.
money.cnn.com /2002/06/21/news/bush_distrust.reut/index.htm   (560 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Iranian distrust of America is 50 years in the making   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Those recollections include a coup d'état in 1953 that led to a distrust of America that lingers today.
I was born a few days after America helped overthrow the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 and reinstalled the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The threat of communism is all but gone, but the plan for intervention in Iran in the name of democracy is still very much alive.
www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/2005-02-21-iran-distrust_x.htm   (787 words)

  
 Memory distrust syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A person who suffers from memory distrust syndrome may distrust his or her own memory and be motivated to rely on external (non-self) sources.
In addition, the credibility of a witness account who suffers from memory distrust syndrome is more questionable.
In a parallel situation, amnesic individuals may have a greater propensity to have their memory manipulated and perhaps perform non-advantageous acts on the "direction" of external sources and have difficulty in differentiating imaginary and real experiences.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memory_distrust_syndrome   (250 words)

  
 Love and Trust / Force and Distrust -- Trust - Love-Not-Force   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
distrusting then, that they will "do us wrong or harm us" somehow.
Obviously, there is only insecurity and fear and distrust in a tyranny, being under FORCE.
But if he has not built her up, then when that momentary concern about TRUST enters in, she is likely to become increasingly DISTRUSTFUL, and the FEAR will most typically strengthen.
www.lovenotforce.com /love-not-force/trust/love-trust--force-distrust   (906 words)

  
 Build stepparent-stepchild trust, over time - p. 1 of 2
This article explores (a) what trust is, and where it comes from; (b) four types of stepparent-stepchild trust, (c) six common causes of distrust, and (d) key options for mutual trust-building, over time.
Implication: there are as many things you may dis/trust as there are sources of bodily and emotional pain.
Pretending role-confidence when you don't believe it is a double message that promotes confusion, anxiety, and distrust in and between your stepchild's homes.
sfhelp.org /Rx/spsc/distrust.htm   (2102 words)

  
 distrust - OneLook Dictionary Search
distrust : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
Distrust : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Words similar to distrust: distrusted, distrustfulness, distrusting, doubt, misgiving, mistrust, suspect, suspicion, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=distrust   (195 words)

  
 Distrust of the World and Yourself   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
You begin to feel a churning fear that no one and nothing in the world will give you fulfillment.
You feel that because of your negative state you are incapable of ever extricating yourself from your miseries.
Distrust of the world and of yourself is a most profound doubt.
www.yogaworld.org /enter/distrust.htm   (251 words)

  
 Workplace Politics: The High Cost of Low Trust: Part II; trust,culture,distrust
When we distrust someone, we sometimes limit contact by avoiding that person, to relieve ourselves of worry about attacks.
Moreover, the insulation also deprives those we distrust of information about us, which can cause distrust on their part, too.
Avoidance tends to deepen distrust on both sides, which increases the prevalence and cost of other distrust coping patterns.
www.chacocanyon.com /pointlookout/060426.shtml   (1108 words)

  
 Gun Owners Likelier to Distrust Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The study, published in the current issue of Social Science Quarterly, also found government mistrust is widespread, not just the characteristic of a small minority.
Rick Pearson, president of the Illinois State Rifle Association, said he was not surprised by the study results because the government deserves citizens' distrust.
Those who own guns and distrust the government may fear the government will take away their rights or that it will not be able to protect them.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/8/16/151819.shtml   (566 words)

  
 definition of distrust
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
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www.brainydictionary.com /words/di/distrust156142.html   (202 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Healthy Distrust: Music: Sage Francis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
His music is rooted in classic hip-hop, but he comes across like an amalgam of Dylan, Lou Reed, Chuck D, and George Carlin.
Introspective but aggressive, politically incisive but funny as hell, "A Healthy Distrust" is Sage's first Epitaph release.
As with any artist who has had many great releases, it is difficult to evaluate Sage Francis's "A Healthy Distrust" fairly.
www.amazon.com /Healthy-Distrust-Sage-Francis/dp/B00079HZZC   (2513 words)

  
 Distrust by Katatonia: Song Music Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "Distrust" on album Discouraged Ones.
Check the albums tab for other downloads from Katatonia.
Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "Distrust" on album Discouraged Ones.
www.mp3.com /tracks/1344124/dl_streams.html   (81 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Lawmakers Express Distrust of CDC on Vaccine Studies - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lawmakers Express Distrust of CDC on Vaccine Studies
WASHINGTON — For years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has maintained that no direct link exists between early vaccinations and developmental disorders in children, but not everyone wants to give the last word on the subject to the government public health agency.
Dave Weldon of Florida, one of a dwindling number of Republicans with safe seats this year, said he will reintroduce his bill — the Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2006 — when the 110th Congress convenes next year.
www.foxnews.com.cob-web.org:8888 /story/0,2933,219538,00.html   (1409 words)

  
 School Work on Distrust between the sexex
In the essay,” The distrust between the sexes,” Karen Horney has an analytical view of
distrust between the sexes, mainly based on the Freud’s works.
How does Guterson present distrust of the Japanese in the no
www.123schoolwork.com /show_essay/248448.html   (228 words)

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