Good News About Trust: You’re Delusional

Remember the time your partner told everyone at the office holiday party about your failed hair transplants? No? That may be because you trust your partner, for better or for worse. A new study by researchers at Northwestern University suggests that people who are highly trusting tend to remember transgressions in a way that benefits the relationship, which is to say, not so well. People who have little trust in a relationship, on the other hand, remember partner transgressions as being more severe than how they originally reported them to be. The researchers consider the finding to be good news, at least for the relationship. Do you believe that? Read more from Northwestern here.