Psychological safety vs. trust

(Taken from this hard-to-parse paragraph on Wikipedia and simplified with the help of ChatGPT)

There are two key differences between psychological safety and trust:

  1. Psychological safety is often felt in the present moment, like how safe you feel in a group right now. Trust, on the other hand, is usually about future expectations, like believing someone will do what they say later on.
  2. Psychological safety is about how group members think they are seen by others in that group, and what they think will happen if they take social risks. Trust, on the other hand, is about one person’s opinion of another.

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