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Wednesday, September 14. 2011

Culture and personality traits: Trust

Trust is a fascinating topic mingling, as it does, personality tendencies (especially extent of projection of one's own evil impulses and thoughts) with cultural or subcultural norms and rational expectations. There are trust cultures and distrust cultures.


Here's a study by nationality: Do You Think Most People Try to Take Advantage of You?


Life has slowly taught me to be less trusting than I am naturally inclined to be, given my cocooned upbringing. I am most trusting, rightly or wrongly, of my own sort of people amongst whom, on the whole, there are strict and agreed-upon codes of behavior.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 11:04 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Where's Britain/England/Scotland/Ireland in this chart? Just 1.8% for #1 (=Would take Advantage) for China? No way I believe this survey.
#1 Agent Cooper on 2011-09-14 18:15 (Reply)
Forgot one, one of my personal travel favorites, too: where's Cymru?
#1.1 Agent Cooper on 2011-09-14 18:18 (Reply)
What exactly do you hope to achieve with this post, DJB? Is this some sort of psycho-metric assessment of your readers? Do you have a crack team of black-hats peering into my machine as I respond to your post? I'm wearing a tinfoil hat, thereby foiling any attempts you're making right now to read my thoughts or control my actions! And the only information on my machine is a collection of Julia Child's recipes under a layer of 128-bit encryption.
#2 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-09-14 20:49 (Reply)
'Do You Think Most People Try to Take Advantage of You?"

No. They're just all out to get me.
#3 feeblemind on 2011-09-14 22:23 (Reply)
Dr. Bliss, do not ever loose your sense of trust. Yes, I agree, it can be difficult but please consider this: Only the truly strong can be naive or gullible. Those who are weak cannot afford to be naive; they cannot afford to trust.

Life, I fear, has given you the right information which you have taken to a wrong conclusion. Your writings speak clearly to your strength and integrity. These are attributes of the wise and the good. They are also attributes of the naive and the gullible. We can afford to trust, we can afford to be naive, we can reach out "just one more time" because we have these strengths and choose to exercise them.

In short, Leave fear to the foolish.
#4 Michael Scott on 2011-09-14 23:32 (Reply)

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