Sharing our thoughts, experiences, and difficulties with others makes us feel closer to others and increases our trust.
With the aim to increase our understanding of trust in facility birth care we explored how users and providers perceived the low utilization of health facilities during childbirth.
Our dreams can remind us that self-care is a prerequisite to increasing our capacity to trust ourselves, particularly when we feel so vulnerable.
Previous research has shown that oxytocin increases our feelings of trust and plays an important role in bonding with others (ScienceNOW, 1 June 2005).
Our findings make a concrete contribution by increasing our understanding of partner trust and cooperative learning, in a business plan writing course in the Facebook community.
Turning first to the instrumental value of trust to the trustor, some argue that trusting vastly increases our opportunities for cooperating with others and for benefiting from that cooperation, although of course we would only benefit if people we trusted cooperated as well (Gambetta 1988; Hardin 2002).
Could we use newer technology, such as blockchain (the underlying technology of bitcoin) to help increase the trust of our transactions?
As voters head to the polls once again today, let us consider how we might improve our electoral system to increase turnout and trust in our government.
