Long acquaintance provides a better trust basis than sudden love

Evidence

Trust as a human passion may rest on close familiarity or massive social distance. Many have trusted their Queen (or Stalin) as implicitly as ever they have trusted their spouse or favourite sibling. The essence of trust as a passion is the confident expectation of benign intentions in another free agent. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1068 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Iterated ongoing relationships are the largest source of trust in ordinary life.; Love commonly produces trust rather than presupposing it; Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1068 (+3 more)

Related

• Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance (similarity 0.93)
• Love lets trust escalate fast without requiring shared associates or community support (similarity 0.91)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle (similarity 0.88)
• Trust as passion is confident expectation of another’s benign intentions. (similarity 0.85)
• Love commonly produces trust rather than presupposing it (similarity 0.82)
• Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment (similarity 0.81)
• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds (similarity 0.81)
• Socially extensive and enduring trust is inherently difficult to create (similarity 0.81)
• Kinship provides reliable trust bonds regardless of personal sympathy. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust can be deliberately simulated and codified far beyond its natural sources (similarity 0.80)
• Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply (similarity 0.80)
• Trustworthiness persists only while future gains from the relationship outweigh defection (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is expectation formed before the other’s action can be monitored (similarity 0.79)
• Trust is distinct from familiarity, friendship, and moral values (similarity 0.79)
• Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance #qualifies (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1068
• Mature relationships make trust overdetermined by multiple independent motives #corroborates (0.75)
• Trust requires time for repeated interactions and is a cognitive capacity #corroborates (0.75)
• Trustworthiness arises from many small open stages rather than single sovereign strokes #expands (0.72)