Low group-level trust reflects asymmetric interaction frequencies and early-life experience.
Evidence
Thresholds for behavior may be important and asymmetric here. We may tip from trust to distrust only when big enough news comes in. Additionally, it may be generally harder to tip from distrust to trust. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 961 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Low-trust people test fewer interactions, so experience extends their disadvantage; Trust and distrust shift asymmetrically across behavioral thresholds — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 961; Prior experience, not the traits of the new person, determines initial trust expectations. (+2 more)
Related
- Trust and distrust shift asymmetrically across behavioral thresholds (similarity 0.83)
- Minority groups have more cross-group interactions and thus accumulate more untrustworthy relationship experience. (similarity 0.81)
- People build trust gradually through limited initial exposure (similarity 0.81)
- Misplaced trust costs far more than forgone trust, making distrust come more quickly (similarity 0.79)
- Youth distrust reflects experience of an untrustworthy world, not personal flaw (similarity 0.79)
- In-group-trust patterns prove trust is relational, not based on the trusted’s traits. (similarity 0.79)
- Learned distrust is harder to unlearn and blocks success more than learned trust (similarity 0.79)
- Initial trust levels create self-reinforcing spirals of cooperation or distrust (similarity 0.79)
- Apparent trust differences are often just differential risk-taking and learning speed (similarity 0.78)
- Suspicion of others’ trustworthiness is inherently well grounded (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Low-trust people test fewer interactions, so experience extends their disadvantage
#expands(0.88) - Trust and distrust shift asymmetrically across behavioral thresholds
#expands(0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 961