Trust requires assurance that is at least somewhat well based

Evidence

Cooperation requires trust in the sense that dependent parties need some degree of assurance that non-dependent parties will not defect: as I have already said, this need not take the form of ‘thick’ trust, individually based belief, but it must take some form or other. The next step after this is to claim that, in general, people will not trust others enough to bring about cooperation unless their assurance is to some extent well based: that is to say, unless people are also in general motivated, one way or another, not to defect if they are in a nondependent position. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 178

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: Hardin’s claim that trust requires observable constraints on opportunistic behavior—Williams specifies the assurance must be ‘well based’, i.e. grounded in real constraints.

Related

• Trust must be well based on others’ general motivation not to defect (similarity 0.93)
• Cooperation requires trust as assurance against defection by non-dependent parties (similarity 0.92)
• Assumptions that dependent parties need assurance can ground trust theory (similarity 0.90)
• Trust requires both freedom to defect and constraints that make cooperation attractive (similarity 0.88)
• Cooperation requires common knowledge of mutual preferences, not just shared preferences (similarity 0.86)
• Cooperation requires knowing others’ motives and being believed trustworthy (similarity 0.85)
• Effective cooperation does not require trust among animals (similarity 0.84)
• Trust operates where parties are both free and constrained (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is a result rather than a precondition of cooperation (similarity 0.84)
• Explaining trust requires understanding the conditions of cooperation (similarity 0.84)
• Successful constraint-based cooperation can itself build up trust over time. (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is not a resource depleted by use (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is expectation formed before the other’s action can be monitored (similarity 0.84)
• The assumption that people trust only on valid grounds is empirical and provisional (similarity 0.84)
• Strategies to minimize reliance on trust have been conflated with neglecting to understand it. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Trust requires belief in the other’s motivations, not mere behavioral expectation #expands (0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 101