Increased contact builds mutual belief frameworks that reduce miscommunication and exploitation

Evidence

Secondly, there are the consequences of increased contact for the establishment of a framework within which individuals will have the belief that there is greater certainty as to the intent behind any communi- ~ cation, and, therefore, less likelihood of their being misunderstood or exploited. This framework will centre on the mutual beliefs of the interactants, and the role of this in communication has been stressed by Individuals, Interpersonal Relations, Trust 45 many authors.’ — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 703

Categorization

• XREF: Mutual-belief framework is the observational substrate whose collapse in blindness produces Hobbesian order — the core of the Luhmann/Hardin synthesis. — connects to: Less communication can yield truer scientific consensus (Zollman effect) — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 214; Clear consensus communication is an always-deferred fantasy projected by the system — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 950; Near-zero communication cost eliminated the gatekeeping function — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 345 (+2 more)