Confusing familiarity with trust causes analytical error

Evidence

To begin with, we have to avoid confusion between familiarity and trust. … Familiarity is an unavoidable fact of life; trust is a solution for specific problems of risk. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1334

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: The familiarity/trust confusion is exactly the error Luhmann attributes to earlier sociologists; parallels how the reader’s analysis must separate the blindness victims’ retained familiarity (spatial, bodily) from their collapsed trust.

Related

• Trust solves problems of risk but operates only within a familiar world (similarity 0.87)
• Trust, distrust, and familiarity are distinct stances that can shift and combine (similarity 0.85)
• Familiarity suppresses trust reflection until doubt exposes hidden foreignness (similarity 0.84)
• Trust structures may later givver way to simple confidence (similarity 0.84)
• Familiarity precedes both trust and distrust as their shared precondition (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is distinct from familiarity, friendship, and moral values (similarity 0.84)
• Trust only becomes a problem when familiarity no longer suffices (similarity 0.83)
• Trust can be deliberately simulated and codified far beyond its natural sources (similarity 0.83)
• Familiarity prevents trust from becoming a conscious problem; doubt reopens it. (similarity 0.83)
• Familiarity, confidence, and trust are substitutable self-assurances with limits (similarity 0.83)
• Trust, though biologically inherited in its optimism, stays subject to correction by experience. (similarity 0.81)
• Overt risk calculation in contracts can undercut the trust it formalizes (similarity 0.81)
• The familiarity-trust balance shifts with social system complexity (similarity 0.80)
• Economists treat trust as background rather than transaction cost (similarity 0.80)
• Trust, faith, and confidence differ in required sensory evidence (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Familiarity prevents trust from becoming a conscious problem; doubt reopens it. #expands (0.85) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 172