A question in the surveys asks how trusting respondents felt about other people on an 11-point scale, with a high score indicating that people are trusting. After a shaky start at the beginning of ...

It's "such a common misunderstanding" that asking for help makes you seem weak, but people are actually more inclined to trust you when you ask them for assistance than the other way around ...

Untrustworthy people don’t trust others, and while this could signify that they’ve been burned by others in the past, it’s often something more. “It can also be projection—that is ...

simply because people believe people. What can you do about it? Other than trying to reflect on why you trust someone, one thing that may be helpful is to draw on a distinction made by ...

Developmental scientists are changing people’s minds about how credulous children are by studying the different forms that trust can take, the ways in which children reason about other people—who they ...

While Britons are less trusting of those with political authority, they appear to be more trusting in each other.

Would you trust someone who betrayed others—if it worked in your favor? New research challenges conventional wisdom about trust and betrayal, finding that people may still trust someone who has ...