Survey items on generalized trust necessarily restrict the range of trustable matters

Evidence

Admittedly, trust and distrust are, in the way in which complexity is reduced, confused in principle and oriented towards concrete persons or groups or the objects and events symbolizing their trustworthiness. That does not mean, however, that trust relationships cannot be restricted to specific aspects. One can trust someone in matters of love but not in money matters; one can trust his knowledge but not his skill, his moral intention but not his ability to report objectively, his taste but not his discretion. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 320 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Survey claims of generalized trust conceal strict contextual limits; Imprecise survey questions manufacture the illusion of generalized trust; Cross-national trust comparisons measure different questions in each society (+3 more)

Related

• Survey claims of generalized trust conceal strict contextual limits (similarity 0.88)
• Trust relationships can be restricted to specific domains of competence (similarity 0.88)
• Generalized trust actually operates with scoped contextual constraints (similarity 0.86)
• Trust is domain-specific, varying by context and relationship rather than globally. (similarity 0.85)
• Imprecise survey questions manufacture the illusion of generalized trust (similarity 0.85)
• Generalized trust is closer to expectation than to relationship-specific trust (similarity 0.85)
• Generalized trust is noncognitive and nonrelational by definition (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is a plastic concept that requires narrow specification to be useful (similarity 0.84)
• Generalized trust is defined as unspecific trust in strangers (similarity 0.82)
• Standard survey measures of generalized trust actually gauge perceived decency, not trust (similarity 0.81)
• Grounded trust cannot be selectively aimed without criteria for selection (similarity 0.81)
• Survey measures of generalized trust are misdescribed artifacts of vague questions. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust operates through generalization that detaches from specific experience (similarity 0.81)
• Generalized trust means trust toward strangers beyond one’s known circle. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust is always context-specific, never genuinely generalized (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Trust relationships can be restricted to specific domains of competence #corroborates (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 320