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Why Do We Trust Strangers? The Psychology of Trust, Risk & Human Behavior
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Why do we trust strangers? This episode explores the psychology of trust, vulnerability, risk, reciprocity, reputation, facial trustworthiness, past experience, betrayal, social identity, and digital trust. Through trust-game research and social psychology, we examine why trust and trustworthiness are different, how people form expectations about strangers, and why the healthiest goal may not be maximum trust or maximum distrust but better-calibrated trust based on evidence, context, and consequences.