Learned distrust is harder to unlearn and blocks success more than learned trust

Evidence

Appropriately learned distrust may be the greatest obstacle to success in life in the larger society for the person who eventually goes to prison, and then prison reinforces that incapacitating distrust. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 503

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the asymmetry between trust and distrust learning — distrusters enter fewer joint endeavors and get less feedback on others’ trustworthiness, which bears on Luhmann’s familiarity-based account of trust.