Trust is both an emotional and logical act. Emotionally, it is when you expose your emotions to people believing they will not take advantage of your openness. Logically, it is where you have estimated the chances of gain and loss, calculating to make use of based on facts given and concluded that the person in question will behave in a predictable manner. In practice, trust is a bit of both. I trust you because I have experienced your trustworthiness and because I have faith in human nature. Only, when trust is betrayed, recognition of the broken pattern and the acceptance of a new pattern take place. That is why teens who have been wronged repeatedly lack the capacity to trust. The same goes for adults. If an adult has been repeatedly wronged and taken for a ride, say in love matters, he is very careful with his emotions even where his best friends are concerned. Once our trust is broken we take our steps with heightened awareness. Unfortunately, developing a trust-relationship is the first step of various crimes. Gaining a victim’s trust, establishing credibility within an environment, and even creating a trustworthy environment can be the maneuverings of a perpetrator. Knowing this, why do we still trust so readily?
Reasons why people don’t Trust
1) Because we don’t know them.
2) Because we know them.
3) Because we are still locked in the prison of our past experience.
Why we should still trust
1) We trust because without trust we could never get cooperation and reciprocity. In general, people who trust have better interpersonal relationships.
2) Because people who don’t trust tend to be more angry, competitive, and resentful.
3) People who choose to trust tend to be happier, better liked by others, and more ethical than less trusting people.
4) Trusting people forgives readily
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