Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness (TRUST)

The Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness (TRUST) Program seeks to significantly advance the IC's capabilities to assess who can be trusted under certain conditions and in contexts relevant to the IC, potentially even in the presence of stress and/or deception. The TRUST Program seeks to bring together sensing AND validated protocols to develop tools for assessing trustworthiness by using one's own ("Self") signals to assess another's ("Other") trustworthiness under certain conditions and in specific contexts, which can be measured in ecologically-valid, scientifically-credible experimental protocols.

Performers (Prime Contractors)

Ball Aerospace; InnoCentive, Inc.; SRI International

Related Program(s) and Challenges

• SHARP
• INSTINCT Challenge

Research Area(s)

• Interpersonal trust
• Neurophysiology
• Behavioral science
• Advanced data analytics
• Social science

Related Publications

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Related Article(s)

• Alternate Reality Games For Behavioral and Social Science Research
• Lack of Association between Human Plasma Oxytocin and Interpersonal Trust in a Prisoner’s Dilemma Paradigm