Love lets trust escalate fast without requiring shared associates or community support

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Love commonly produces trust rather than presupposing it; Forced interdependence can generate trust almost instantly; Strong interest-inclusion makes love-based trust broader than ordinary exchange trust (+3 more)

Related

• Long acquaintance provides a better trust basis than sudden love (similarity 0.91)
• Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance (similarity 0.90)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle (similarity 0.87)
• Love commonly produces trust rather than presupposing it (similarity 0.86)
• Trust as passion is confident expectation of another’s benign intentions. (similarity 0.84)
• Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply (similarity 0.82)
• Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment (similarity 0.82)
• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds (similarity 0.82)
• Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them (similarity 0.81)
• Falling in love substitutes for the knowledge that grounded trust normally requires. (similarity 0.81)
• Socially extensive and enduring trust is inherently difficult to create (similarity 0.80)
• Trust can be deliberately simulated and codified far beyond its natural sources (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is distinct from familiarity, friendship, and moral values (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is expectation formed before the other’s action can be monitored (similarity 0.80)
• Forced interdependence can generate trust almost instantly (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance #expands (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1068
• Strong interest-inclusion makes love-based trust broader than ordinary exchange trust #expands (0.80)
• Reflexive personal trust enables actions impossible by simple trust #expands (0.80)
• Forced interdependence can generate trust almost instantly #complicates (0.78)
• Trustworthiness is grounded in the trusted’s interest in maintaining a relationship #complicates (0.75)