Abstract: As an empirical fact that is increasingly experienced in daily life in China today,trust crisis has already been paid much attention to by many scholars, and lots of discussions have been made in the academic field. In this paper, the authors tries to adopt a different point of view, which is distinguished from previous ones, and probe in the origin of trust crisis from the angle of loss of criterion in realistic personality, and then further ponder over the ways of trust reestablishment

Key words: trustcrisis, lossofcriterioninrealisticpersonality, trustreestablishment