Content by Hugo Mercier
The trust paradox: We learn more when we trust more, even when we’re wrong
It’s easy to see downsides of misplaced trust, it’s much more difficult to see how we could have benefited by believing in others
Hugo Mercier
Hugo Mercier is a research scientist at the CNRS (Institut Jean Nicod) in Paris where he works with the Evolution and Social Cognition team. He is the author of The Enigma of Reason (2017), co-authored with Dan Sperber, and Not Born Yesterday (forthcoming, 2020). He lives in Nantes, France.