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Jan 29, 2018 · Our trust in strangers is dependent on their resemblance to others we’ve previously known, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. Its results show that strangers resembling past individuals known to be trustworthy are trusted more; by contrast, those similar to others known to be untrustworthy are trusted less.
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Jul 11, 2019 · The mystery of why people trust strangers even though they think they shouldn’t has been studied by University of Michigan psychologist David Dunning and his associates, and they explore it in...
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WASHINGTON — Trusting a stranger may have more to do with feeling morally obligated to show respect for someone else’s character than actually believing the person is trustworthy, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Dunning and colleagues rule out several common explanations for why people trust strangers. The first explanation has to do with altruism . This involves doing something that benefits someone...
Jan 30, 2018 · Summary: A new study reveals we trust, or distrust, strangers based on their resemblance to people we have experienced in the past. Source: NYU. Our trust in strangers is dependent on their resemblance to others we’ve previously known, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers.
Mar 30, 2010 · The problem is that when we don’t ever trust strangers, we never find out how trustworthy people in general really are. As a result, our estimation of them is governed by fear.
The greater the similarity in neural activity between initially learning about an untrustworthy player and deciding to trust a stranger, the more subjects refused to trust the stranger. This...
