Moral reciprocity can produce trustworthiness in the encapsulated-interest sense

Evidence

Suppose I know that you rigidly follow certain moral rules, including your variant of the golden rule, which is always to reciprocate any kind or cooperative action toward you. Hence I am quite confident that in certain contexts you will act in ways that are equivalent to being trustworthy even in the encapsulated-interest sense. Something like this variant of the golden rule seems to have motivated many people I have known on occasion. Indeed, it may have motivated more people than I would have noticed, so that it might be an important source of trustworthiness. It would be of interest to attempt to weigh its frequency against that of the motivation of encapsulated interest in various contexts. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 217

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that a golden-rule moral disposition can functionally equate to encapsulated-interest trustworthiness, distinguishing the two motivations.
• XREF: Connects to Hardin’s encapsulated-interest theory of trust from earlier in the book, and to the reader’s Luhmann/Hardin synthesis project. — connects to: Market making enforces a reciprocity norm that sustains the market itself — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 87; Moral suasion via respect and obligation recruided members to trade new derivatives products. — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 687; Gift recognition must pair with responsibility for true reciprocity — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1274