{"id":8865,"date":"2025-12-08T15:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=8865"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:15:12","slug":"fighting-distrust","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/en\/blog\/fighting-distrust\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Distrust"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":8864,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-8865","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"content":"We like to think of ourselves as open-minded, especially in those proudly \u201cdiverse\u201d workplaces. Yet a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Brittany C. Solomon reminds us that distrust doesn\u2019t only creep in along ethnic or cultural lines, it seeps into our political ones, too. And, as it turns out, liberals and conservatives both excel at being suspicious, just not of the same people.\r\n\r\nThe findings are telling: liberals tend to distrust colleagues with different political views, while conservatives are more likely to distrust those from different racial backgrounds. In a series of field and lab studies involving more than 250 American participants, Solomon found that liberals tend to question the goodness of more conservative peers, whereas conservatives doubt the competence of those who are racially different. In short, both sides are wary, but for very different reasons.\r\n\r\nThe study was conducted in the United States, but it\u2019s hard to imagine the pattern stopping at the border. These cognitive filters become a collective trap when political or racial diversity fades from our workplaces. Diversity isn\u2019t just about representation; it\u2019s what keeps human ecosystems from turning stale. The problem with distrust, of course, is that we spot it in others far more easily than in ourselves. And that\u2019s perhaps the study\u2019s most valuable lesson: progressives who have worked hard to address bias against minorities might also need to practise a bit more openness of their own.","cube_page_builder":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighting Distrust &#8212; Ph\u00e9nix Conseil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/en\/blog\/fighting-distrust\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighting Distrust &#8212; Ph\u00e9nix Conseil\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/en\/blog\/fighting-distrust\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ph\u00e9nix Conseil\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-08T15:15:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ChatGPT-Image-27-oct.-2025-17_02_34.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/en\/blog\/fighting-distrust\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/en\/blog\/fighting-distrust\/\",\"name\":\"Fighting Distrust &#8212; 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