And, at least in my case, many of us are distrusting of anything that sounds too good to be true.

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"I don't want us to be a distrusting society, " said Mr Findlater.

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Another consequence of the situation was how distrusting she became with colleagues, even after she had moved on to a new employer.

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Perhaps all this confusion over trust--trusting the wrong people, distrusting the right ones--in the online world is just a sign of the Internets youth.

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But he has struggled to gain a foothold, with many Iraqis distrusting him because of his many years in exile and close ties to the United States.

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Other studies have shown that wearing counterfeit versions of brand-name products makes people feel less authentic, and actually increases their likelihood of both behaving dishonesty and distrusting others.

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It got to the point where I started distrusting what people were telling me and how to rely on the written documents, which, as a journalist, I've never had to do before.

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It wants a straight yes-or-no referendum on independence, distrusting hints from Mr Salmond that he might put more than one question to Scottish voters, offering them not just independence but also a form of deep devolution that would leave little more than defence and foreign policy in British government hands.

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