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Compared with other organisms, humans are born significantly underdeveloped physically and highly vulnerable for a considerable period of time.

Therefore, trust and mistrust can be profoundly wired into our design as it is uniquely relevant in our survival.

People may say they don't trust others much, but that might apply more to one's attitude toward specific kinds of relationships. Meanwhile, most of us do trust others in daily life more than we may realize.

Trust can be altered by levels of oxytocin, a pro-social hormone in the body. We also have an evolutionary propsensity to trust faces that look similar to our own, perhaps because our brains recognize a higher probability of being related and thus protected.

Inside of the word trust you have “us” and this episode aims to expand and serve the sense of “us-ness.”

(Music is “The Stone of Rejuvenation” by The Lovely Moon and episode artwork is by Emily Dawn Duforest)