Trustworthiness is judging one’s interests as depending on fulfilling trust

Evidence

If my trust in you is well placed, that is because you are likely to have the motivation to do what I trust you to do. That is to say, you are likely to be trustworthy. In the encapsulated-interest account, trustworthiness is just the capacity to judge one’s interests as dependent on doing what one is trusted to do. In virtually all accounts, the central problem in your trustworthiness is your commitment to fulfill another’s trust in you. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 165

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely defines the encapsulated-interest account of trustworthiness — the mechanism through which the doctor’s wife’s motivations remain aligned with the blind’s reliance on her.
• XREF: Directly relevant to Hardin’s larger argument (cited in the reader’s purpose) that trust requires observable constraints on opportunistic behavior — here the constraint is internalized interest-judgment.