Seven in ten people hesitate to trust someone who doesn’t think like them

What is reported

The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer (33,938 people surveyed online in 28 countries, from 25 October to 16 November 2025) classifies 70% of respondents as “insular”: 30% say they are unwilling and 40% hesitant to trust someone with other values, other sources of information, another culture or another way of solving society’s problems; 30% say they are open. The rate reaches 90% in Japan, 81% in Germany, 76% in the United Kingdom, 73% in Canada and 70% in the United States. 61% of respondents (26 countries) report a moderate or high sense of grievance. In the United States, the Pew Research Center measured in 2022 that 72% of Republicans and 63% of Democrats judged members of the other party more “immoral” than other Americans, against 47% and 35% in 2016; in April 2026, 26% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of both parties (21% in 2020).