Assessing another’s trustworthiness requires direct or reputational knowledge

Evidence

Much of the literature on trust seems to be grounded in dispositional assumptions, although these are often not articulated. I therefore discuss the plausible role of dispositions in establishing trustworthiness. A dispositional account of trustworthiness must be highly relational, because we cannot sensibly hope to assess others’ dispositions unless we know them well either directly or by reputation. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 182

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Reputation’ as a knowledge source connects to the reader’s Milgrom/Roberts work on reputation-mediated exchange and to Baier’s relational account of trust. — connects to: Party reputations substitute for direct knowledge in democratic trust — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 73