Are you too trusting?

A friend tells you that his employers have deposited money into a wrong account and hence he has not been paid this month. He further says that his employers will rectify the mistake and give him the money in a week's time. Until then, he wants to borrow $1,000 from you. What would you do?

Say no because you don't want to take the risk of lending money to anyone.

Prod your friend about what exactly happened and how the money got deposited in another account. Lend the money only after you have done your investigation.

Lend the money. After all, what are friends for?

You go to your boss and ask for a raise because you haven't got any in the last year. Your boss gives you his word that you will be promoted in a few months time. What do you do?

Ask your boss to give this to you in writing.

Take your boss' word for it but ask him about it every week.

Take your boss' word and wait for a few months to pass by.

How many times have you been betrayed by friends, partners or acquaintances?

You have seldom been betrayed by anyone.

You have been betrayed a few times by your friends.

You have been betrayed by your friends many times in life and once even by your own partner.

You go to your bank and the teller informs you about a fantastic new investment opportunity where you could double your money in just a few years. What would you do?

You wouldn't invest because you've heard a lot of negative stories about dodgy investment schemes. This may very well be one of them.

Take the Product Disclosure Statement home and read the fine print in detail. You may even research this particular investment product on the Internet.

Sign the papers right away. After all, the bank would never lie to you. They have obligations, right?

You give your car to the local mechanic for repairs. The mechanic takes a look under the hood and tells you that repairs will cost you $500 if you want to make your car road worthy again. What do you do?

Refuse to do the repairs and take your car to another mechanic for a second opinion.

Ask the mechanic what the $500 charge is for and only then give your car for repair.

Spend $500 if that is what it takes to repair your car and get it road worthy again.

You're watching a commercial for a cleaning device which promises to deliver mind boggling results and clean everything immediately. The price seems too good to be true. Would you buy it?

Of course not. Anything that is too good to be true, may not be true after all.

You Google it and look for product reviews.

You grab your credit card immediately and call them because they mentioned that there have very few units left unsold.

You are walking down the street when a man comes up to you and tells you how he came from a countryside town but got robbed. Now he has no money, no credit cards and needs money to catch a bus home. What would you do?

Simply walk away. You've heard many stories like this.

Ask the man where he wants to go and buy him a bus ticket.

Give the man the money to buy a bus ticket.

You and your friend have bought front row tickets to the Friday night game. You met your friend in the afternoon and you both left for home to get ready for the game. Just an hour before the game you receive a call from your friend who tells you that he can't go because he is sick. What do you do?

You doubt the truth in his excuse and decide to go over to his place to check on him.

Ask him what made him sick suddenly and try to convince him to come.

Sympathize with your friend and go to the game alone. It wouldn't be as much fun, but what can you do?

You are on a vacation in a foreign country and you take a cab from the airport to the hotel. You think that the cab driver is taking the longer route to overcharge you. What do you do?

Ask the cab driver to stop at the nearest mall. You get off from the cab and look for alternative ways to reach your hotel.

You ask your cab driver curiously as to why it is taking so long.

Sit tight because you are afraid that the cab driver may feel insulted if you ask too many questions.

Are you too trusting?

You are not trusting at all.

It would be fair to call you a skeptic. You don't trust anyone and seem to doubt the morality of everything that is told to you by friends, colleagues and other strangers.

You trust others with caution.

You are not too trusting but you are not a skeptic either. You have a habit of double checking things before you agree to do something.

You are too trusting.

You seem to believe every word that is told to you. You trust others very easily because of which there have been times when you have been betrayed.

You trust without logic.

Depending on the situation, you tend to become too trusting or not trusting at all. There is no behavioral pattern or logic as to what determines your trust on other people.

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