Trust belongs to belief states, while risk-taking is the separable action.

Evidence

Treating trust as a form of behavior is confusing and gets in the way of an explanation of behavior. What we commonly wish to do is to explain various actions and behaviors that derive from trust or degree of trust. If trust is the action, what are we trying to explain in thousands of pages on the topic? I therefore keep trust in the category of knowledge and belief rather than in the category of action and behavior. There is no “act of trusting.” Rather, there is trusting or not trusting to whatever degree, and there is taking the risk of engaging with someone. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 307

Categorization

• DEFINE: Hardin’s core taxonomy: trust as degree of belief, separate from the act of taking risk or engaging.