Trusting others and trusting oneself develop together.

Evidence

Trust in others is developed in conjunction with the formation of an inner sense of trustworthiness, which provides a basis of a stable self-identity subsequently. Hence very early on trust implies a mutuality of experience. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Mutuality of trust = the facework that faceless commitment replaces; Stevens never develops trusting others because he trusts the institution instead. — connects to: System trust rests on trusting that others also trust — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 261; Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them; Trust requires controlling one’s own readiness to accept risk — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 161 (+8 more)

Related

• Learning to trust is steered by the developing self-identity (similarity 0.93)
• Self-identity depends on the trustworthy company of equals (similarity 0.90)
• Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them (similarity 0.87)
• Trust requires controlling one’s own readiness to accept risk (similarity 0.84)
• Trust in trust takes four distinct reflexive forms with different risks (similarity 0.83)
• System trust rests on trusting that others also trust (similarity 0.83)
• Trust of unknown others arises by generalizing from one’s own trustworthy self (similarity 0.82)
• Modern self-discovery is intrinsically bound up with reflexive trust-building (similarity 0.82)
• People willing to trust others are themselves more trustworthy and well-adjusted (similarity 0.82)
• Trust, though biologically inherited in its optimism, stays subject to correction by experience. (similarity 0.82)
• Trust is learned and generalized across a lifetime, not mechanically acquired (similarity 0.82)
• Readiness to trust itself varies and is not a fixed precondition (similarity 0.81)
• Trust reduces to knowledge while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.81)
• External trust depends on learning and system cover, not internal structural reasons. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust requires belief in the other’s motivations, not mere behavioral expectation (similarity 0.81)