For decades, research has repeatedly linked betrayal to a broad spectrum of psychological disorders and complaints, ranging from anxiety to psychopathy. Indeed, some researchers have gone as far as to compare betrayal to trauma in its psychological sequelae, implying that betrayal in its very nature is traumatic. Despite the consistency with which these findings are reported the mechanisms which underlie this relationship remain largely unknown. In an effort to rectify this, we investigated distrust generalisation as a potential mechanism by which learning from a singular event may become maladaptive, giving rise to psychopathological symptoms such as hypervigilance or paranoia. We further examined the role of social support at the time of betrayal and its potential role as it relates to distrust generalisation. At this time, the collected data contains insufficient evidence to inform conclusions on the relationship between distrust generalisation and psychopathology.