Dr. Leslie K. John
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first heard May 2026
last heard 4 May
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And now why does, then the question is, every question you answer in research, this is why I love my job, is another question, another layer.
Well, why is that person trustworthy?
And what we found was that when you think about it,
revealing something sensitive to someone is showing that you trust the person because I'm saying the thing and I'm like relinquishing control to the universe and I'm implicitly saying, I trust you to not make a fool out of me, right?
So I'm showing.
And when we feel that someone trusts us, it causes us to trust them in return.
And why is that important?
Because it is the foundation of human relationships, right?
We're herd creatures.
We cannot survive without strong relationships.
And so-
When someone abstains saliently from this activity of revealing when they say, I'm opting out of answering, we treat them with contempt.
So much so that we would rather hire someone, date someone who admits pretty bad things relative to someone who simply abstains.
And you could think about it like, there's lots of reasons why the non-responder, it could be a principled non-response, right?
They could be saying, this is an insensitive, this is not the right question, I object, right?
Well, when you said imagine...
And in fact, we did other experiments where we put people in that position.
We said, okay, you have like, imagine you have, we didn't have make people imagine they had lots of STDs.
We've got them to imagine that they had failed an exam or something.
And you're getting on a job application.
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