The capacity to trust others is as important as being trustworthy

Evidence

There is no a priori reason to suppose that either trust or trustworthiness is the dominant consideration in general. Teaching our children to be trustworthy is likely to be good for them. But teaching them the capacity to trust and to be optimistic about the cooperativeness of others—for example, by being trustworthy and supportive of their trust in our dealings with them and giving them many opportunities to test our trustworthiness—is surely also fundamentally important for them if they are going to live among a reasonably cooperative populace. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 540

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘capacity to trust’ as a learned disposition connects to the reader’s Hardin framework — trust requires observable constraints, here supplied by parental predictability.