Can you really measure trust? Yes, so, says the
Harvard School of Economics. A research experiment was conducted to measure
trust and it is mentioned in the 42-page report in their Quarterly Journal of
Economics. Here in this experiment, individuals were each given $15and were
asked to put in any amount of money, maximum being 15 dollars in a sealed
envelope had to be purposefully forgotten in a public place like coffee house,
cinema hall, mall etc. The experiment was to see-how much money did people
actually put in the envelopes and how many envelopes got to the addresses. You
will be amazed by the results-The envelopes with the most money, i.e. all the
15 dollars, were the maximum ones that were posted or hand delivered by total
strangers, even when they did not know what was in there! It is due to the
universal law of trusting others.
The most important decision we make is whether we
believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
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