Distrust arises from inconsistency or symbolic discrediting of trust
Evidence
Distrust can consequently develop out of unquestioning familiarity on the one hand, through the sudden appearance of inconsistencies – one hears an inexplicable noise in the middle of the night – and, on the other, through a reversal of trust, if symptoms are perceived which are symbolically discrediting. Past history will remain important to the way in which distrust is articulated, the emotional tone of its expression and its durability. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 268
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Distrust is a self-reinforcing, self-fulfilling social dynamic. (similarity 0.84)
- Distrust needs less information than trust to form. (similarity 0.84)
- Chance first impressions set the criteria that later shift trust to distrust. (similarity 0.84)
- Distrust is self-fulfilling and cannot be invalidated by experience (similarity 0.84)
- Trusting makes every small event symptomatically significant and trust fragile (similarity 0.84)
- Misplaced trust costs far more than forgone trust, making distrust come more quickly (similarity 0.84)
- Distrust becomes socially visible through distrustful behavior (similarity 0.83)
- Distrust is often the rational default even in good relationships (similarity 0.83)
- Trust and distrust are asymmetric when interests visibly conflict (similarity 0.82)
- Excess knowledge that trust is being built can itself collapse it into distrust (similarity 0.82)
- Trust requires some prior information and cannot arise from nothing (similarity 0.82)
- Withholding trust feeds a self-reinforcing spiral of lost rational capacity. (similarity 0.82)
- Distrust strategies can become autonomous habitual routines (similarity 0.82)
- Distrust restricts information so the distruster never learns to distrust less (similarity 0.82)
- Trust structures may later givver way to simple confidence (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Trust is regulated through symbol-feedback loops, not direct reality contact
#expands(0.55) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 162