Generalized trust means trust toward strangers beyond one’s known circle.

Evidence

Terms such as public trust (Harris and Wicks 2010), generalized trust (Sztompka 1999a), and general/social trust (Lewis and Weigert 1985) are often used interchangeably (Cook and Schilke 2010) to denote the average social level of trust towards people outside of the closed circles of people we personally know well; e.g., first-time encounters, foreigners, neighbours, casual acquaintances. — TOMASZ OLEJNICZAK, Development of Trust in Low-Trust…, 152

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the distinct conceptualization of generalized trust vs. process-based and characteristic-based trust within closed networks.
• XREF: connects to: Generalized trust is defined as unspecific trust in strangers — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 792; Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment; Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2840 (+4 more)

Related

• Generalized trust is defined as unspecific trust in strangers (similarity 0.90)
• Generalized trust is closer to expectation than to relationship-specific trust (similarity 0.88)
• Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment (similarity 0.86)
• Trust is domain-specific, varying by context and relationship rather than globally. (similarity 0.85)
• Generalized trust actually operates with scoped contextual constraints (similarity 0.85)
• Generalized trust is noncognitive and nonrelational by definition (similarity 0.85)
• Generalized social trust lacks grounding in specific relationships. (similarity 0.84)
• Trust operates through generalization that detaches from specific experience (similarity 0.83)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle (similarity 0.82)
• Trust extends kin-group loyalty outward to the whole society (similarity 0.81)
• Survey items on generalized trust necessarily restrict the range of trustable matters (similarity 0.81)
• Survey claims of generalized trust conceal strict contextual limits (similarity 0.80)
• What passes for generalized trust is conditional optimism that collapses with context (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is always context-specific, never genuinely generalized (similarity 0.80)
• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Generalized trust is defined as unspecific trust in strangers #corroborates (1.00) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 792
• Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment #contradicts (0.85)
• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds #qualifies (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2840
• Generalized trust actually operates with scoped contextual constraints #qualifies (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 807
• Trust extends kin-group loyalty outward to the whole society #expands (0.75)
• Trust is an attitude transferable to no other objects or people #contradicts (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 155
• Trust is domain-specific, varying by context and relationship rather than globally. #qualifies (0.72)