The phenomenon of human trust: an interdisciplinary review

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The article presents an interdisciplinary review of research on the phenomenon of human interpersonal trust. Trust is a multifaceted manifestation of human psychology and behavior, and its understanding is difficult to fit into any single scientific paradigm. The paper highlights various aspects of human trust, as well as different approaches to the investigation of this phenomenon. The author considers the socio-cultural, psychological, ethological and biological factors that influence predispositions to trust others. A special place in the article is given to trust toward strangers and the mechanisms responsible for its functioning. The article also presents trust from an evolutionary perspective as a fundamental component of human cooperative behavior.

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Victoria V. Rostovtseva

The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: victoria.v.rostovtseva@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1846-9865

CSc in Biology, senior Researcher in the Center of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Human Ethology

Russian Federation, 32a, Leninsky Prospect, Moscow 119334

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