--- --- # You’re More Likely to Trust a Stranger if They Look Like an Old Friend by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 30, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 30, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**You’re more likely to trust a stranger if they look like an old friend.**](https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2018/january/why-do-we-trust--or-not-trust--strangers--the-answer-is-pavlovia.html) By _New York University_ **2\.** [**Black unemployment is at a record low. But there’s more to the story.**](http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/23/news/economy/black-unemployment/index.html) By Lydia DePillis at _CNN Money_ **3\.** [**Institutional power — that protected people and enforced norms — has broken down. What’s left?**](https://www.buzzfeed.com/katherinemiller/the-past-year-and-the-breakdown-of-institutional-power?utm%5Fterm=.wg833zBKw#.njxrr0JwO) By Katherine Miller at _Buzzfeed News_ **4\.** [**America needs to focus on getting more women in the workforce. Here’s why.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01/29/enough-about-men-3-reasons-to-boost-womens-work/) By Eleanor Krause and Richard V. Reeves at the _Brookings Institution_ **5\.** [**So-called ‘chain migration’ is a myth. Smart family immigration policies are an engine for economic prosperity in America.**](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/26/myth-chain-migration-trump-family-immigration-216536) By Cecilia Muñoz in _Politico Magazine_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: People Trust a Strangers If They Look Familiar ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5124747/youre-more-likely-to-trust-a-stranger-if-they-look-like-an-old-friend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5124747/youre-more-likely-to-trust-a-stranger-if-they-look-like-an-old-friend/"},"headline":"You’re More Likely to Trust a Stranger if They Look Like an Old Friend","datePublished":"2018-01-30T17:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:10.768Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5124747/youre-more-likely-to-trust-a-stranger-if-they-look-like-an-old-friend/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Unemployment","Immigration","Power","trust","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5124747/youre-more-likely-to-trust-a-stranger-if-they-look-like-an-old-friend/","name":"You’re More Likely to Trust a Stranger if They Look Like an Old Friend"}}]}] ```