27th Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology
14-18 July, 2025, Visegrad, Hungary
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TRUST
Convened by
Joseph P. Forgas
The conference seeks to bring together researchers who are
interested in understanding the psychology of trust – the uniquely
human symbolic ability to have confidence in the reliability,
truthfulness and predictability of other people, our social
relationships, and our cultural and political institutions. Trust is
a key aspect of human sociability, and an essential prerequisite for
healthy personality adjustment as well as successful personal
relationships and larger social systems.
We hope to invite researchers working in any area of psychology
related to the topic of trust including areas of evolutionary,
personality, cognitive, cultural, political and economic research
who are interested in exploring the nature origins, functions, and
psychological and cultural antecedents and consequences of trust in
our daily lives. Given the recent worrying decline of trust in our
liberal democracies and the increasingly polarized and hostile
nature of public discourse, this topic seems particularly
interesting and relevant at this time.
We believe that many substantive areas of psychology and related
fields have an important contribution to make to understanding how
humans create, maintain and sometimes damage trust. We would like
the get contributions from leading international researchers like
yourself whose work has some interesting implications for
understanding the psychological processes underlying the formation,
preservation and destruction of trust, from any area of research.