Propensity to Trust and Risk Aversion: Differential Roles in the Trust Process

•Exploration of propensity to trust and risk aversion on trustworthiness perceptions and trust behaviors across time.•Empirically explored the influence of uncertainty on the trust process.•Propensity to trust was related to initial perceptions and behaviors whereas risk aversion was related to change over time.•Findings support Thielmann et al.’s (2020) theoretical model of affordances.