What helps people take a leap of faith?

What is it about?

To trust someone is to take a risk that the other person will come through for you. But what allows us to take that leap of faith? A study of firefighters who have to trust their co-workers with their lives, often without "good" evidence of how they will perform in a fire situation, shows how occupations help its members to willfully accept the uncertainty that goes with the job.

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Why is it important?

Leaps of faith are essential in many types of trust, but we we know very little about what encourages people to take them.