Researchers have long puzzled over how to determine if someone is trustworthy. Find out how their work can provide helpful hints to the rest of us.
Judgments about people’s trustworthiness are made frequently and have important real-life consequences. However, the accuracy of these judgments is debated. We therefore systematically reviewed the current evidence for accurate trustworthiness detection in the literature.
My dissertation focused on three topics related to trust. Do people trust differently in their first vs. second language? Do people know whom to trust? Does the acquaintanceship between people predict how accurate they are at detecting trustworthiness?
