Episode 18: Who Do You Trust? Part I: Interpersonal Trust

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Over the next three episodes (she only meant to do two episodes on the topic but it turned out she needed three!), April explains the connection between trust and critical thinking. In Part I, she discusses the importance of interpersonal trust, why it's so necessary, what can go wrong when we trust, and ways to avoid putting our trust in the wrong people. And she uses both "who do you trust (because it just seems right)" and "whom do you trust (because it's probably grammatically correct)" in the episode. Hey, she's not an English teacher, okay?

Episode 18 Show Notes

Dr. Paul Thagard's definition of trust:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/201810/what-is-trust

An explanation of semantic pointers:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332837961_The_Semantic_Pointer_Theory_of_Emotion_Integrating_Physiology_Appraisal_and_Construction

I'm going to guess that about 80% of the posts here are legit (so take what you read with a grain of salt). Anyway, if even half of them are true, it's still a tragedy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/

Just a few of Bernie Madoff's more famous victims:
https://www.biography.com/news/bernie-madoff-famous-victims

Research that shows we trust people who think like we do, and distrust those who don't:
https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-mere-liking-effect-why-you-trust-people-who-are-like-you

We also think the people who look like us are more trustworthy:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131107094406.htm#:~:text=When%20a%20person%20is%20deemed,according%20to%20a%20new%20study.&text=FULL%20STORY-,When%20a%20person%20is%20deemed%20trustworthy%2C%20we%20perceive%20that%20person's,study%20published%20in%20Psychological%20Science

Marsh and Brigg's research on trust and forgiveness:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9_2

Author, consultant, and business founder Charles Green gives some advice about determining whom to trust:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trustedadvisor/2012/01/03/how-can-you-know-whom-to-trust/?sh=1decb7ca141e

Psychologist Melanie Greenburg also has some good advice about trusting people:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201411/5-ways-decide-who-you-can-trust