{"id":14,"date":"2010-11-17T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T11:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/2010\/11\/trust-me-build-trust-with-these-14-steps.html"},"modified":"2010-11-17T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T11:41:27","slug":"trust-me-build-trust-with-these-14-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2010\/11\/trust-me-build-trust-with-these-14-steps.html","title":{"rendered":"Trust Me!  Build Trust with these 14 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>From Divine Caroline:<\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\">Trust is what keeps our society functioning. Evolutionarily speaking, we must trust to survive. But it can be a slippery thing. What makes us trust people? And more curiously, what makes us trust some people but not others?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/trust.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trust.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/210\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/trust-thumb-200x128-19387.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"128\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><font face=\"'times new roman', times, serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><b>See the first 3 steps here:<\/b><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"'times new roman', times, serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><font face=\"'times new roman', times, serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 16px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p>1. Familiarity. The more contact you have with someone, the more information you collect about him or her. The more information you have, the more confident you can be in your expectations.<\/p>\n<p>2. Resemblance. If someone looks, dresses, or acts like you, you&#8217;re more likely to believe his or her actions and reactions will be similar to your own. A 2002 study at a Canadian university showed that people are more likely to trust someone whose&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divinecaroline.com\/22264\/59849-features-say-us\" title=\"facial features\">facial features<\/a>&nbsp;resemble theirs.<\/p>\n<p>3. Consistency. The more someone behaves with consistency, the better you&#8217;re able to establish patterns and form expectations.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Verdana, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divinecaroline.com\/22189\/102178-trust-me-fourteen-things-make\">Click off to find the rest of the steps here.<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Divine Caroline: Trust is what keeps our society functioning. Evolutionarily speaking, we must trust to survive. But it can be a slippery thing. What makes us trust people? And more curiously, what makes us trust some people but not others? See the first 3 steps here: 1. Familiarity. The more contact you have with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,30,31],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-building-trust","tag-handshake","tag-trustworthiness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trust Me! 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