The Psychology of Trust | Anne Böckler-Raettig | TEDxFrankfurt

Anne Böckler-Raettig is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology at Würzburg University. She studied in Berlin and Glasgow and completed her PhD at Radboud University in Nijmegen. After a research stay in Princeton, Anne worked as a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. Anne employs methods from psychology, neuroscience and behavioral economics to investigate the processes that underlie social understanding and social interaction. Specifically, she is interested in gaze behavior, empathy, perspective-taking and social decision-making. More recently, Anne began to address the malleability of socio-affective and socio-cognitive capacities and interpersonal behavior by means of meditation based trainings.

[everburningblue]

I wouldn't trust their audio engineer.

[Halo-lihg]

This is why gossip can be so damaging it determines a person's trust immediately true or not.

[CynthiaSchoenbauer]

I see that trust has been missing in my life. It feels good to hear about how trust is what is important in relationships and that it is something the can be re-engendered when it is lacking.

[Jet]

No, you cannot trust everyone.
We already know, that trust is necessary for relationships, but people need to be careful, too.

[ScoopDogg]

I got a job and in the first week my boss heard me saying something about a jacket i wanted, a week later he called me in and gave me a 2nd hand jacket (the one i dreamed about owning) i wanted worth £200 (in 1988s prices) if bought new, ....anyway i found a card with a name on an, appointment saying call me fiona and £300 in notes in another pocket. I gave him it back after 2 days pondering but tempted to keep it. I only earned 37 pound in the 80's on a training scheme. Anyway he said he thought he lost it and said thanks, turns out he didn't know about the card his brother gave him but he not read it yet after he slipped it in his pocket and forgot about it, i thought he was testing me, but wasn't lol. Ends up the card appointment to go see his sister who died the day after he went to see her and he hadn't seen her in 12 years. so wouldn't have known if i hadn't give him it back. Anyway made 3 people happy, and he trusted me which was a fantastic feeling for me to know and him... If i had spent it, i wouldn't even have a memory to mention and he wouldn't have made contact with his sister on her death bed... P.S he offered me the money and i said No. he gave it to the cancer charity.. A great man sadly gone now.; but that feeling i got was worth ten times the coat the money. Sorry I bored you with this long message lol : /

[alibeaumont-filder]

Trust, respect and loyalty .. without we have these elements, we have nothing .... sadly when we do not deliver this .. we can lose people. Thank you for presenting .

[thegoonist]

yes but a little too simplistic: trust is important, but you also need to consider other factors. while a greedy selfish person might feel good being trustworthy, he might feel even better stealing money. a corporation cannot afford 1 fraud of 1 billion from its employee, and so the 'giving a second chance/forgiving' suggestion does not work in that context.

[danmarquez]

Everyone can be trusted up to a limit. The acceptable limit is the big debate.

[GoldhartStudio]

Trust builds with time and being in different situation with that person.

[lordkanti]

My question is what happens when too many times is your trust unreciprocated. Do you then become untrusting too and if so which is more prominent? Do all grow old and untrusting or lucky enough to have a change of heart?

[tinagvardanyan]

Trust is that noblest of qualities that all are born with, few succeed in maintaining it, some aspire to gain it, and most conspire to abuse it. Don't give away your trust to anyone that asks, if you know its worth and value. And if you don't know its value yet, look back in your life and see how much trusting the wrong people has cost you, or cost them.

[helenjones]

Trust is very important within relationships. I used to trust automatically, naturally until a person showed me that I couldn't trust them any longer. I have since changed. I also have learned that with some people you can overall trust them, but there will come a time where you know or realize that this same person can't be trusted in certain situations. I wish that I was my same old self, trusting automatically until a person teach me to distrust. It was easier for me then. To distrust automatically goes against my natural grain whenever I meet new people and I am uncomfortable, and it shows.

[JaneyImaaniEmotionalAwareness]

This is such an important topic, so glad we are talking about it in detail.

[jerome]

I trust her research because of the accent.

[sunsetkitty]

This does not have nearly enough views to have a positive effect on the world.
So please pass it along.
Thank you.

[plinden]

5 minutes in: Some people look more trustworthy than others. We have no studies about whether someone who looks more trustworthy is more trustworthy (my guess is that they are because intuition is based on past experience). It would be good to know who is trustworthy. I hope it gets better. There is a link between understanding others and trust. (No doubt because if you cannot read people, you don't know who to trust obviously.) Wow this is was pointless and boring.

[reachingmygoals]

Trust isnt easy anymore anywhere really. Thats why im aware of trusting people these days. This year i had to cut over 10 people out of my life off of mistrust. I was thinking of not trusting people anymore. But what i do is still make friends but not get too close anymore since i am getting older. I know what its like to deal with mistrust. I only trust my immediate family.

[AppleSlicesUnite]

Organic trust is different than manufactured trust as she's describing here. I feel what she's teaching is how to play the game of getting what you want/manipulation of sorts. I'd elaborate on organic trust but that's a book that I'm not writing here in the comment section.

[eugeneano]

or your parents were so busy working, like my parents on the farm, that they could not possibly spent time with you. or kids were not important - they had food and kept warm.

would be nice to speak how to learn to trust when you were hurt, neglected as a kid

[Rob_aka_CancelProof]

Trust works best when paired with reciprocity as trust and reciprocity combined the basis for all human interactions and they reinforce each other in ways that enable future trust and reciprocity but everybody focuses so much on trust and I don't think most people realize how important the reciprocity component is because both need to be present for long-term success