Forced interdependence can generate trust almost instantly

Evidence

In this experiment, the standard trust game and the mutual help trust game exhibit two very different patterns. In the standard game, the more you give, the greater are your rights to the money and the greater the amount of money you receive. In the mutual help game, the more you give to the other participant, the greater the amount of money she keeps. This contrast makes clear sense in a mutualistic morality of fairness and impartiality. Every gift creates an obligation. The character of the obligation, however, varies according to the kind of partnership involved. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 166 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Initial cooperation can wreck backward induction and build rational trust — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 606; Trust forms sequentially by reducing social complexity over discrete steps; Trust can be deliberately created by fabricating distrust — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666 (+5 more)

Related

• Reciprocal trust creates mutual incentives for trustworthiness (similarity 0.92)
• Future gains from continued interaction function as both incentive and sanction for trust. (similarity 0.89)
• Reciprocity motivations can be self-reinforcing where further interactions are plentiful (similarity 0.89)
• Trustworthiness carries the moral burden because short-run incentives favor betrayal (similarity 0.89)
• Mature relationships make trust overdetermined by multiple independent motives (similarity 0.87)
• Trust requires time for repeated interactions and is a cognitive capacity (similarity 0.87)
• Building stable relations generates the incentives that produce trust (similarity 0.87)
• Cooperative relationships require asymmetric giving at their outset (similarity 0.87)
• Relationships that must escalate invite trust disruptions that mimic endgame effects (similarity 0.87)
• State unreliability cascades into mutual distrust that blocks cooperation (similarity 0.86)
• Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms (similarity 0.86)
• Reciprocated cooperation teaches one to internalize others’ interests (similarity 0.85)
• Cost-driven market ties evolve into trust-laden partnerships over time (similarity 0.84)
• Trust relationships self-maintain once the parties recognize mutual benefit (similarity 0.84)
• Reciprocal trust multiplies each party’s incentive to be trustworthy (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Extending trust can create the trustworthy behavior it presumes #corroborates (0.80)
• Trust forms sequentially by reducing social complexity over discrete steps #qualifies (0.78)
• Reciprocal trust creates mutual incentives for trustworthiness #complicates (0.77) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 166
• Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms #expands (0.75)
• Trust can be deliberately created by fabricating distrust #expands (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666