Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle

Evidence

Personal bonds and moral values can only function as encouragements to action and cooperation if they are concepts in which we believe. Motive and belief belong together here: they are part of a person’s identity, they arise out of his passions and feelings. It is constituent of the definition of personal bonds that - within the limits of character and skill - one trusts one’s friends more deeply than strangers (see Hart and Hawthorn). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2840 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Iterated ongoing relationships are the largest source of trust in ordinary life.; Strong interest-inclusion makes love-based trust broader than ordinary exchange trust; Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment (+9 more)

Related

• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds (similarity 0.92)
• Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance (similarity 0.88)
• Long acquaintance provides a better trust basis than sudden love (similarity 0.88)
• Love lets trust escalate fast without requiring shared associates or community support (similarity 0.87)
• Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment (similarity 0.86)
• Promises typically regulate relations with known people, not strangers (similarity 0.85)
• Trust was historically bound to friendship, not just narrow intimacy (similarity 0.85)
• Trust as passion is confident expectation of another’s benign intentions. (similarity 0.83)
• Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them (similarity 0.83)
• Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply (similarity 0.83)
• Trust extends kin-group loyalty outward to the whole society (similarity 0.82)
• Modern society’s specialization freed friendship from dependence, allowing selective trust (similarity 0.82)
• Socially extensive and enduring trust is inherently difficult to create (similarity 0.82)
• Generalized trust is defined as unspecific trust in strangers (similarity 0.82)
• Generalized trust means trust toward strangers beyond one’s known circle. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Trusting friends more than strangers is definitional to personal bonds #contradicts (0.82) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2840
• Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them #expands (0.80)
• Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance #expands (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1068
• Communal trustworthiness can seed willingness to trust in wider society #expands (0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 823