Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Trust and the Good Life
- 2 Strategic Trust and Moralistic Trust
- 3 Counting (on) Trust
- 4 The Roots of Trust
- 5 Trust and Experience
- 6 Stability and Change in Trust
- 7 Trust and Consequences
- 8 Trust and the Democratic Temperament
- Epilogue: Trust and the Civic Community
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
5 - Trust and Experience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Trust and the Good Life
- 2 Strategic Trust and Moralistic Trust
- 3 Counting (on) Trust
- 4 The Roots of Trust
- 5 Trust and Experience
- 6 Stability and Change in Trust
- 7 Trust and Consequences
- 8 Trust and the Democratic Temperament
- Epilogue: Trust and the Civic Community
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
I guess it would seem to me it depends on what group of people you are talking about. In my personal life or work life I would have the tendency to lean towards trust. When it comes to political issues I would probably have the tendency to not trust.
Most people can be trusted, not all people but some, most people can though. Experienced a few people in his life where he trusted them and got shafted.
Sometimes getting too close with feelings toward people you trust them and sacrifice things for them and they can surprisingly shaft you, but they were serious enough that you never forget the experience. The past is the past and you should live for the day and of course you never forget the experience but its not healthy to dwell on it.
Most people can be trusted although they have a renter who hasn't paid in two and a half months. They gave [the renter] an eviction notice today. Everybody else needs to pay their bills.
– Respondents to the 2000 ANES Pilot Study “think aloud” question on trustWhen we decry the decline in trust from almost 60 percent in 1960 to barely more than a third of Americans in the late 1990s, we naturally begin to wonder what we can do to rebuild confidence in other people. Optimism, self-control, and good parenting don't offer much guidance in how to increase trust. How do we make people feel better about themselves and how do we make them better parents?
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- The Moral Foundations of Trust , pp. 115 - 159Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002