Familiarity suppresses trust reflection until doubt exposes hidden foreignness

Evidence

For the most part, closer familiarity keeps the problem of trust from even becoming a matter for reflection. And when reflection does occur in such circumstances, the taken-for-granted nature of familiarity will be lifted. A gulf of obscurity opens up even with respect to things and people nearest to one, which doubt removes into a surprising impression of foreignness. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 172

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to facework vs faceless commitments: familiarity-based trust is primary/facework trust that only becomes an issue when doubt (Luhmann’s distrust) interrupts taken-for-grantedness — connects directly to Giddens’s distinction.
• DEFINE: Clarifies that familiarity-based trust is pre-reflective, a baseline others must be built on.