Self-reflexive trust generates extra motivation as risk increases

Evidence

I can trust my own trust in another person if I attribute to my own trust the ability to motivate others, and if, furthermore, I find out the ways in which my partner is affected by being trusted. With this in mind, I can create for myself an additional motive for trust. This engenders more opportunities for trust in the face of increasing risk. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 260

Categorization

• XREF: Self-referential trust here parallels Stevens’s self-assurance in his own professional devotion — a motive boost that functions even as institutional risk grows. — connects to: Post-crisis risk models internalized social imitation as a financial risk factor. — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 1231