Embracing complexity: Exploring and refining trust research

If you ever suspected that trust research might run out of topics or questions to be studied, come and visit the Journal of Trust Research’s Editorial Office where authors regularly amaze us with new issues, new contexts and new ideas they have discovered. Often the novelty does not lie so much in the fact that they address something completely unheard of, but in how they connect, dissect or recollect phenomena we would have thought are already well understood, yet apparently are not, once we take a closer look, take them somewhere else and recognise their complexity. The current journal issue showcases how much potential the extensive and diverse field of trust research (Möllering, 2017) holds for further exploration and refinement. In the following, I will preview the contents of this issue and highlight some other current developments in trust research.