Do you consider yourself a person who trusts others more than others? Or are you a low-trusting person, who needs to see evidence of trust before and even then remain a little skeptical? Regardless of which type you feel you are - which one, the high or low truster, do you believe spots liars more easily?
Some recent research demonstrates a perhaps surprising answer. According to Nancy Carter and Mark Weber of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, "Although people seem to believe that low trusters are better lie detectors and less gullible than high trusters, our results suggest that the reverse is true."
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