Initial trust priors derive from the past behavior of others

Evidence

This initial assignment is provided historically, as it were, by the past behaviour of other salesmen. For example, imagine that we are all queueing outside a store in a Cairo bazaar. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 974

Categorization

• QUESTION: Where do initial priors come from in Saramago’s world? When sight vanishes, every individual’s reputational priors become untestable — a nice puzzle for the analysis.