Trust is a three-part relation, not an ungrounded attitude of faith

Evidence

Trust is a three-part relation that is grounded in the truster’s assessment of the intentions of the trusted with respect to some action. Typically, the intentions of the trusted will be based in self-interest (as in the account of encapsulated interest), moral commitment, or idiosyncratic character. Other views, that trust is an attitude of ungrounded faith or belief or that it is inherently moral, are not convincing as general accounts of trust. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 51

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Three sources of trusted intentions: self-interest, moral commitment, idiosyncratic character.
• XREF: The counter-position (trust as ungrounded faith or inherently moral) parallels Luhmann’s familiarity concept, which the reader is using as the baseline that blindness destroys.

Related

• Trust is a three-part relation assessing another’s intentions about some action (similarity 0.94)
• Trust is a three-part relation of agent, trusted, and act (similarity 0.90)
• Trust is a three-part cognitive relation grounded in truth, not choice (similarity 0.90)
• Trust is a three-part relation of A trusting B to do X (similarity 0.87)
• Trust is a cognitive state of belief, not an action or purpose (similarity 0.87)
• Trust is normally three-part, open-ended only in very close relationships. (similarity 0.87)
• Trust is rational expectation about the trusted party’s self-interest (similarity 0.87)
• Three of four trust theories require cognitive assessment of the trusted (similarity 0.86)
• Noncognitive accounts of trust reduce it to a one-part relation without expectations (similarity 0.86)
• Most theories of trust rest on four assumptions irreconcilable with encapsulated interest (similarity 0.85)
• Trustworthiness is grounded in the trusted’s interest in maintaining a relationship (similarity 0.85)
• Trust is a matter of knowledge and belief, not of choice or action. (similarity 0.85)
• Trust is not reducible to emotion the way joy might be (similarity 0.84)
• Trust reduces to knowledge while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.84)
• Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Trust is a three-part relation of agent, trusted, and act #expands (0.90) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 91
• Trust is a three-part cognitive relation grounded in truth, not choice #corroborates (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 81