Trustworthiness beliefs are updated through a Bayesian-style learning process.

Evidence

Understanding that others will be trustworthy when their incentives are right, as in the encapsulated-interest account of trust, may hold greater, quicker promise for grasping those opportunities. This requires seeing the choices of others from their perspective to comprehend their incentives. Then trust becomes fully strategic. It is no longer merely induction on senseless facts. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 603 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Stereotyping functions as a starting baseline for updating trust estimates; Learning-based trust fits the encapsulated-interest model through iterated incentives — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 603; Optimism about others’ trustworthiness is self-reinforcing through gained experience (+3 more)

Related

• Learning-based trust fits the encapsulated-interest model through iterated incentives (similarity 0.89)
• Trust operates as Bayesian belief updating grounded in cooperation experience. (similarity 0.88)
• Optimism about others’ trustworthiness is self-reinforcing through gained experience (similarity 0.86)
• Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms (similarity 0.86)
• Trust, though biologically inherited in its optimism, stays subject to correction by experience. (similarity 0.83)
• Bayes’ rule is the unique rational way to update belief (similarity 0.82)
• People build trust gradually through limited initial exposure (similarity 0.82)
• Only incentives, not investment, can genuinely change trustworthiness. (similarity 0.81)
• Most theories of trust rest on four assumptions irreconcilable with encapsulated interest (similarity 0.81)
• Stereotyping functions as a starting baseline for updating trust estimates (similarity 0.81)
• Trust is a kind of knowledge grounded in trustworthy evidence (similarity 0.81)
• Reputation means changing beliefs, not merely incentive-compatible behavior (similarity 0.81)
• Trustworthiness is judging one’s interests as depending on fulfilling trust (similarity 0.81)
• Trust reduces to knowledge while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.81)
• Trust involves beliefs about the other’s incentives toward me, not mere expectations (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Stereotyping functions as a starting baseline for updating trust estimates #expands (0.85)
• Learning-based trust fits the encapsulated-interest model through iterated incentives #exemplifies (0.82) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 603
• Optimism about others’ trustworthiness is self-reinforcing through gained experience #expands (0.75)