Trust as passion is confident expectation of another’s benign intentions.
Evidence
Trust as a human passion may rest on close familiarity or massive social distance. Many have trusted their Queen (or Stalin) as implicitly as ever they have trusted their spouse or favourite sibling. The essence of trust as a passion is the confident expectation of benign intentions in another free agent. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1068
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Sharp definition of trust-as-passion, distinguished from the action-modality sense that Luhmann/Hardin analysis needs.
- XREF: Familiarity-based trust here echoes Luhmann’s ‘familiarity’ baseline the reader wants to contrast with Saramago’s blindness.
Related
- Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance (similarity 0.93)
- Long acquaintance provides a better trust basis than sudden love (similarity 0.85)
- Love lets trust escalate fast without requiring shared associates or community support (similarity 0.85)
- Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle (similarity 0.83)
- Trust is a three-part relation assessing another’s intentions about some action (similarity 0.83)
- Trust is rational expectation about the trusted party’s self-interest (similarity 0.83)
- Trust is distinct from familiarity, friendship, and moral values (similarity 0.82)
- Trust is a degree of expected probability, not a separate decision layered onto risk. (similarity 0.82)
- Trust as chosen policy is wiser than unreflective confidence in institutions (similarity 0.82)
- Trust rests on expectations about others’ actions bearing identifiable risk (similarity 0.82)
- Trust requires both security of expectation and willingness to suspend distrust (similarity 0.82)
- Trust can be deliberately simulated and codified far beyond its natural sources (similarity 0.82)
- Conditional trust can be rationally adopted even among egoists without social ties (similarity 0.82)
- Trust reduces to knowledge while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.82)
- Trust requires both freedom to betray and constraint making the relationship worthwhile. (similarity 0.82)