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Everyone agrees that humans are social beings. It is unimaginable to live in complete isolation from society and other people. The importance of trust for humans as social beings, that is, as people living with relationships with other people, cannot be emphasized too much.
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This practice has been changed by 2010. Now, it is possible to purchase some books on the Internet.
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For example, the average of the following six items was used to measure the level of respondents’ general trust in the Yamagishi and Yamagishi’s survey (1994). They are: “Most people are basically honest.” “Most people are trustworthy.” “Most people are basically good and kind.” “Most people are trustful of others.” “I am trustful.” “Most people will respond in kind when they are trusted by others.”
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See Chap. 9 for more recent studies related to this issue.
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Yamagishi, T. (2011). Paradoxes of Trust. In: Trust. The Science of the Mind. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53936-0_2
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