The article is divided into three main parts. In the first part, an overview of scholarly views on trust/trustworthiness is provided. The second part is concerned with the issue of how the politicians’ trustworthiness is measured by contemporary research agencies. In the third part, the experiment on politicians’ trustworthiness utilizing a new method is reported. This method is based on indirect questioning and it builds on the hypothesis that the more trustworthy a politician is, the more people will agree with his statements and consider them seriously. Four parallel questionnaires were employed. The first questionnaire (N=53) contained 10 short fictitious quotations and subjects were asked to rate them according to their solidness, acceptability, and positivity, and they were asked to say to what extentdid they agree with them. Five of these quotations were used in the next three questionnaires (N=48;47;42) and the names of five Czech politicians (K. Schwarzenberg, A. Vondra, R. John, V. Filip and B. Sobotka) were attached to them. No name was attached to the same quotation twice. Respondents were divided into four independent groups and each group responded to one questionnaire. The independent two-sample t-test was used for the comparison of the ratings and 20 statistically significant results were obtained. This means the method could be one of the keys for a better future understanding of such a complex notion as is the trustworthiness of politicians is., Jan Chromý, Ondřej Dufek., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Důvěra je velice důležitou součástí života každého člověka a současně i velkým tématem vědecké psychologie. Jedná se o fenomén mající vztah ke všem formám života, činnosti, chování a vědomí člověka, bez kterého není možná existence člověka v současném světě. I přesto, že se jedná o tak zásadní téma, tak v současné době neexistuje v českém jazyce přehledová studie, která by tento fenomén komplexně popisovala. Hlavním cílem článku je popis fenoménu důvěry, specifických okolností, vybraných charakteristik a procesů, které s tímto fenoménem souvisejí, a to prostřednictvím analýzy dostupných výzkumných studií a prostřednictvím analýzy toho, jaké charakteristiky důvěry jsou v současných výzkumech sledovány a studovány a v jakých souvislostech. Dalším cílem článku bylo na základě současného výzkumného bádání zmapovat a uspořádat poznatky o významu a funkcích fenoménu důvěry a nedůvěry v existenci a vývoji jedince., Trust is a very important part of life of every human and at the same time the theme for psychological science. It is the phenomenon related to all forms of life, activity, behavior, and human consciousness, without which, the human existence in contemporary world is not possible. Although it is the principal theme, there is to the present day no overview study in Czech describing complexly this phenomenon. The main goal of the paper is the description of the trust phenomenon, specific circumstances, selected characteristics, and processes connected to this phenomenon, namely by the means of analyses of accessible studies and by analyzing, which characteristics of trust are studied in contemporary research and in which context. The further goal of the paper is to map and organize the knowledge concerning the relevance and functions of trust and mistrust phenomenon in the existence and development of an individual on the basis of contemporary research., Marek Kolařík, Drahoslava Rödlová., and Obsahuje seznam literatury