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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jan 30, 2018 7:56:28 GMT
Source: This Is Why You Trust Some Strangers and Not OthersIs your brain hardwired for bias? Imagine you're sitting in a coffee shop, fiddling with your laptop, when nature calls. You decide to ask one of the people sitting near you to watch your computer while you use the bathroom. To your surprise, the person sitting to your left looks suspiciously like Emmy Award-winning nonagenarian Betty White, and the person on your right is a dead ringer for Al Capone. Whom do you ask to watch your property — the Golden Girl, or the gangster? There is no right or wrong answer, but whether the choice seems obvious will likely depend on your prior experience, a new study suggests. Researchers found that your ability to trust strangers is dependent on the stranger's resemblance to other people you know to be trustworthy or untrustworthy. "We make decisions about a stranger's reputation without any direct or explicit information about them based on their similarity to others we've encountered, even when we're unaware of this resemblance," senior study author Elizabeth Phelps, a professor in New York University's Department of Psychology, said in a statement. "This shows our brains deploy a learning mechanism in which moral information encoded from past experiences guides future choices."
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Post by Elizabeth on Jan 30, 2018 8:00:24 GMT
Only friends watch my stuff. Otherwise I put my laptop in the car if I need to for a bit. I do open up more to strangers than family and friends than family . Not sure if that's tied to this too.
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Post by Διαμονδ on Jan 30, 2018 8:02:37 GMT
My choice is a minimum of trust for strangers!
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jan 30, 2018 8:03:31 GMT
Only friends watch my stuff. Otherwise I put my laptop in the car if I need to for a bit. I do open up more to strangers than family and friends than family . if that's tied to this too. This study says your brain trust strangers based on your experiences and previous encounters. You trust some faces more than the others.
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jan 30, 2018 8:05:40 GMT
My choice is a minimum of trust for strangers! You follow Agent 47's way of life: Never trust anyone. I'm similar to 47 too: I'm bald and never trust anyone.
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Post by Elizabeth on Jan 30, 2018 8:07:29 GMT
Only friends watch my stuff. Otherwise I put my laptop in the car if I need to for a bit. I do open up more to strangers than family and friends than family . if that's tied to this too. This study says your brain trust strangers based on your experiences and previous encounters. You trust some faces more than the others. Yes, if they appear nice people then I can share things with them but don't think let any watch my stuff yet at least on first encounter. Strangers asked me to watch their stuff before though without ever speaking to me. I was like ok I will It's nice they trusted me
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Post by Polaris on Jan 30, 2018 8:09:19 GMT
interesting!
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jan 30, 2018 8:13:47 GMT
This study says your brain trust strangers based on your experiences and previous encounters. You trust some faces more than the others. Yes, if they appear nice people then I can share things with them but don't think let any watch my stuff yet at least on first encounter. Strangers asked me to watch their stuff before though without ever speaking to me. I was like ok I will It's nice they trusted me It always happens to me. Strangers come out of nowhere and trust me. Maybe it's because of my shining head.
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Post by Elizabeth on Jan 30, 2018 8:16:37 GMT
Yes, if they appear nice people then I can share things with them but don't think let any watch my stuff yet at least on first encounter. Strangers asked me to watch their stuff before though without ever speaking to me. I was like ok I will It's nice they trusted me It always happens to me. Strangers come out of nowhere and trust me. Maybe it's because of my shining head. Yeah totally not your shining personality but the shining head :/
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jan 30, 2018 8:20:05 GMT
It always happens to me. Strangers come out of nowhere and trust me. Maybe it's because of my shining head. Yeah totally not your shining personality but the shining head :/ 50% personality + 50% my light bulb
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Post by Polaris on Jan 30, 2018 8:27:39 GMT
the above situation does not illustrate trust though. in this situation you must trust one of the two choices, and that entails choosing the less likely to walk away with it or the more likely to keep it for you. it could very well be that you don't trust either of them. trust is when you believe in the righteousness of a person and you think him trutworthy not when you have no choice other than trusting him
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Post by Mocha on Jan 30, 2018 17:23:00 GMT
Whom do you ask to watch your property — the Golden Girl, or the gangster? I ask myself to watch it, and then return to find that I've stolen my laptop.
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Post by Elizabeth on Jan 30, 2018 22:52:16 GMT
Whom do you ask to watch your property — the Golden Girl, or the gangster? I ask myself to watch it, and then return to find that I've stolen my laptop. Yikes. Bad times when you can't even trust your own self xD
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