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Revision with unchanged content. Few models of trust development have been empirically tested. This research explores the cognitive, character-inference process that Dirks & Skarlicki (2004) assert contributes to trust development. Self-reported trans formational leadership, leader integrity, organizational justice, and leader prototypicality correlated positively with cognitive trust in this sample of 81 student employees (63% female, mean age 20.5) of a large southeastern university. Leader prototypicality, a cognitive evaluation process, partially mediated the relationship between leader integrity and trust. This study s prime contribution is the longitudinal, empirical test of a model of trust development in interdependent leader-follower dyads. This material is particularly relevant for those studying industrial and organizational psycho logy, business development, or human resource management. It may also be of interest to practitioners with a human resource or organizational develop ment focus, and those interested in leadership.

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Dr. Roseanne Foti, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Psychology atVirginia Institute and State University.Director of the Industrial and OrganizationalPsychology graduate program.

Corrie Whitmore,2007 M.S. Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 2003 B.A. Psychology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr. Roseanne Foti, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Psychology atVirginia Institute and State University.Director of the Industrial and OrganizationalPsychology graduate program.

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