Reducing distrust is different from generating trust

Evidence

The second qualification, most evident from the example of Korea, is that it may be possible deliberately if deviously to create trust, which cannot always therefore be seen as a ‘by-product’, as Elster claims; and that at least one way of doing so is the way that Elster, after Tocqueville, does not believe is possible. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

A system-rational increase in the effectiveness of trust will depend on all the aspects of trust formation which we have treated in the course of our inquiry and cannot catalogue once again here. Nevertheless, perhaps the decisive question remains open as to whether and how it is possible for trust and distrust to be co-ordinated through the creation of systems, and so increased in tandem. For reasons of general systems theory which cannot be adequately developed here, two closely connected processes ought to be decisive. These are the differentiation of the system from its environment, i.e. the drawing of boundaries, and the inner differentiation of the system, i.e. the functional specification of its subsystems and mechanisms. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 313 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trust and distrust shift asymmetrically across behavioral thresholds — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 961; Trustworthiness enforced only by contract threats is not genuine trust; Distrust requires little evidence while trust demands rich understanding of incentives (+10 more)

Related

• Trust can be deliberately created by fabricating distrust (similarity 0.89)
• Trust and distrust can increase together within differentiated systems. (similarity 0.88)
• Trust and distrust are asymmetric when interests visibly conflict (similarity 0.88)
• Power holders can deliberately manufacture distrust conditions to secure control (similarity 0.87)
• Systems that need distrust must also neutralize it to survive. (similarity 0.84)
• Organizations require the truster to retain a modicum of distrust (similarity 0.83)
• Polite deception can actually build rather than undermine trust (similarity 0.82)
• Trust and law evolved from a common root into differentiated mechanisms (similarity 0.82)
• Member selection raises internal trust while formalizing specific distrust as supervisory duty. (similarity 0.81)
• Excess knowledge that trust is being built can itself collapse it into distrust (similarity 0.81)
• Misplaced trust costs far more than forgone trust, making distrust come more quickly (similarity 0.81)
• Distrust functions as an equivalent alternative to trust (similarity 0.81)
• Social systems need mechanisms that neutralize distrust without eliminating it. (similarity 0.81)
• Distrust strategies can become autonomous habitual routines (similarity 0.80)
• Trusting always exceeds available evidence; reasons for trust are retrospective self-justification (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Trust can be deliberately created by fabricating distrust #contradicts (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1666
• Excess knowledge that trust is being built can itself collapse it into distrust #expands (0.80)
• Trust and distrust can increase together within differentiated systems. #qualifies (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 313