Trustworthy Person

A Trustworthy Person is a person deserving of trust.

• Context:
  • They can often be a Guilt-Feeling Person.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Untrustworthy Person, such as Judas Iscariot, Ivan IV.
• See: Reliable Person, Ambitious Person, Intentional Stance, Honesty, Confidence, Skill, Guilty-Feeling Person.

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References

2018

• (Levine et al., 2018) ⇒ Emma E. Levine, T. Bradford Bitterly, Taya R. Cohen, and Maurice E. Schweitzer. (2018). “Who is Trustworthy? Predicting Trustworthy Intentions and Behavior.” In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI:10.1037%2Fpspi0000136
  • QUOT: Existing trust research has disproportionately focused on what makes people more or less trusting, and has largely ignored the question of what makes people more or less trustworthy. In this investigation, we deepen our understanding of trustworthiness. Across six studies using economic games that measure trustworthy behavior and survey items that measure trustworthy intentions, we explore the personality traits that predict trustworthiness. We demonstrate that guilt-proneness predicts trustworthiness better than a variety of other personality measures, and we identify sense of interpersonal responsibility as the underlying mechanism by both measuring it and manipulating it directly. People who are high in guilt-proneness are more likely to be trustworthy than are individuals who are low in guilt-proneness, but they are not universally more generous. We demonstrate that people high in guilt-proneness are more likely to behave in interpersonally sensitive ways when they are more responsible for others’ outcomes. We also explore potential interventions to increase trustworthiness. Our findings fill a significant gap in the trust literature by building a foundation for investigating trustworthiness, by identifying a trait predictor of trustworthy intentions and behavior, and by providing practical advice for deciding in whom we should place our trust.

2015a

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trustworthy#Adjective
  • QUOTE: Deserving of trust, reliable.

2015b

• https://hbr.org/2015/07/ace-the-assessment
  • QUOTE: Most companies seek employees who are ambitious, reliable, and trustworthy. These elements of work ethic determine not only whether people will get things done but also whether they’ll fit in with the organization’s culture and collaborate well.

2015c

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/trust_(social_sciences) Retrieved:2015-6-25.
  • In a social context, trust has several connotations. Definitions of trust typically refer to a situation characterized by the following aspects: One party (trustor) is willing to rely on the actions of another party (trustee); the situation is directed to the future. In addition, the trustor (voluntarily or forcedly) abandons control over the actions performed by the trustee. As a consequence, the trustor is uncertain about the outcome of the other's actions; they can only develop and evaluate expectations. The uncertainty involves the risk of failure or harm to the trustor if the trustee will not behave as desired. Trust can be attributed to relationships between people. It can be demonstrated that humans have a natural disposition to trust and to judge trustworthiness that can be traced to the neurobiological structure and activity of a human brain. Some studies indicate that trust can be altered e.g. by the application of oxytocin. Conceptually, trust is also attributable to relationships within and between social groups (families, friends, communities, organisations, companies, nations etc.). It is a popular approach to frame the dynamics of inter-group and intra-group interactions in terms of trust. When it comes to the relationship between people and technology, the attribution of trust is a matter of dispute. The intentional stance demonstrates that trust can be validly attributed to human relationships with complex technologies. However, rational reflection leads to the rejection of an ability to trust technological artefacts. One of the key current challenges in the social sciences is to re-think how the rapid progress of technology has impacted constructs such as trust. This is specifically true for information technology that dramatically alters causation in social systems.

    In the social sciences, the subtleties of trust are a subject of ongoing research. In sociology and psychology the degree to which one party trusts another is a measure of belief in the honesty, fairness, or benevolence of another party. The term “confidence” is more appropriate for a belief in the competence of the other party. Based on the most recent research , a failure in trust may be forgiven more easily if it is interpreted as a failure of competence rather than a lack of benevolence or honesty. In economics trust is often conceptualized as reliability in transactions. In all cases trust is a heuristic decision rule, allowing the human to deal with complexities that would require unrealistic effort in rational reasoning.

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