Trust in Military Teams

The objective of this book is to report on contemporary trends in the defence research community on trust in teams including inter- and intra-team trust multi-agency trust and coalition trust. The book also considers trust in information and automation taking a systems view of humans as agents in a multi-agent socio-technical community. The different types of trust are usually found to share many of the same emotive behavioural cognitive and social constructs but differ in the degree of importance associated with each of them. Trust in Military Teams is written by defence scientists from the USA Canada Australia and the UK under the auspices of The Transfer Cooperation Programme. It is representative of the latest thinking on trust in teams and is written for defence researchers postgraduate students academics and practitioners in the human factors community.