Departures from unbounded rationality significantly help maintain trust.

Evidence

While it may be true that any assumption other than that of limitless rationality is extremely difficult for the theoretician to handle, this should not blind us to the fact that such departures exist, and, as I shall argue, that they can play a significant role in the maintenance of trust. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 601

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Luhmann’s notion that trust requires less-than-perfect information-processing; bounded rationality makes trust functionally necessary.