Social possibility rests on well-founded expectations about others’ conduct

Evidence

Rather, it depends (and in ways which perhaps extend with comparative ease to some other species) on the presence or absence of relatively well-founded expectations about the conduct of others — expectations which can serve, until too harshly violated, as premises for partially cooperative conduct of one’s own. What the root conception consists in is a picture of the conditional meshing of mutual interaction. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1158

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Expectations about others’ conduct are precisely what the doctor’s wife can form but the blind cannot—core to the observability argument.

Related

• Trust is expectation formed before the other’s action can be monitored (similarity 0.83)
• Winning trust requires participating socially and absorbing others’ expectations into one’s self-presentation (similarity 0.82)
• Social cooperation rests on expectations about others’ conduct, not on language (similarity 0.81)
• Trust requires belief in the other’s motivations, not mere behavioral expectation (similarity 0.81)
• Trust may have evolved from dense small-community interactions (similarity 0.80)
• Community norms can produce trustworthy behavior without producing encapsulated-interest trust (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is defined by the reason for expectation, not the expectation itself (similarity 0.80)
• Trust requires assurance that is at least somewhat well based (similarity 0.79)
• Trust must be well based on others’ general motivation not to defect (similarity 0.79)
• Trust is a theory about another’s future performance based on their claims (similarity 0.79)
• Self-presentation presumes minimum trust, and trust expands possible actions and accumulates as capital. (similarity 0.79)
• Social norms make people present stable identities that others can trust (similarity 0.79)
• Confidence is a self-fulfilling virtuous spiral unlike superstitious hope (similarity 0.79)
• People are honest unless they have a reason not to be and believe others unless suspicion is triggered — the very thought of doubt ‘does not even come to mind’, so trust operates routinely… (similarity 0.79)
• Capacity for trust requires formative developmental experiences. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Social norms make people present stable identities that others can trust #expands (0.83) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 292
• Winning trust requires participating socially and absorbing others’ expectations into one’s self-presentation #expands (0.82) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 240
• Suspicion of others’ trustworthiness is inherently well grounded #contradicts (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 447