When Your Brain and Your Gut Don’t Agree

Students explore five scenarios where people must decide whether to trust data-based conclusions (fact-based trust) or personal intuition (feeling-based trust). These examples highlight real-world conflicts between data, comfort levels, safety concerns, and personal values. Students classify each scenario into “fact-based” and “feeling-based” trust, prompting them to think critically about how trust is formed.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Social Studies – Decision-Making and Trust

Critical Thinking – Weighing Evidence vs. Emotion

English Language Arts – Categorizing Information

Technology Literacy – Understanding AI’s Role in Daily Life

This worksheet is part of our Would You Trust AI collection.