Trust can be extended to create an obligation in the trusted
Evidence
You might extend hospitality or act as though you trust me in order to demonstrate to me that you have faith in my morality or character or to give me an opportunity to live up to your hopes even though I may have no incentive to reciprocate your action. Alternatively, you may act according to a rule of reciprocity, doing unto others what they do unto you, even when it is not strictly in your interest to do so. Hence you may be trustworthy toward me because I am trustworthy toward you or because you may not wish to be the kind of person who acts toward another as though out of distrust that is not based on solid evidence. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1015
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Acting trustingly toward others can itself induce their trustworthiness (similarity 0.91)
- Trustworthiness can rest on character or reciprocity rather than narrow interest (similarity 0.88)
- Trust rests on the trusted party’s self-interest, not on their personal character (similarity 0.86)
- Trust is not reducible to emotion the way joy might be (similarity 0.85)
- Voluntary acts of personal trust give the trusted party an incentive to be trustworthy (similarity 0.85)
- Building stable relations generates the incentives that produce trust (similarity 0.85)
- Trust relationships self-maintain once the parties recognize mutual benefit (similarity 0.84)
- Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms (similarity 0.84)
- Reciprocal trust multiplies each party’s incentive to be trustworthy (similarity 0.83)
- Trust only arises where opportunistic behavior is genuinely possible (similarity 0.83)
- Failed trust is answered with still more trust, not less. (similarity 0.83)
- Building mutual trust requires confronting risk rather than avoiding it (similarity 0.83)
- Trustworthiness is grounded in the trusted’s interest in maintaining a relationship (similarity 0.83)
- Trust is fully strategic, requiring the truster to account for the trusted’s reciprocity (similarity 0.83)
- Relationships that must escalate invite trust disruptions that mimic endgame effects (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Extending trust can create the trustworthy behavior it presumes
#expands(0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2874 - Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms
#expands(0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 151 - Trust is fully strategic, requiring the truster to account for the trusted’s reciprocity
#expands(0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 77 - Trust can be rationally pursued through codified as-if behavior
#expands(0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2847