Trust and Trustworthiness

About the Author xiii Acknowledgments xv Preface xix Chapter 1 Trust 1(27) Trust as Encapsulated Interest 3(4) Elements of Trust as Encapsulated Interest 7(2) Trust as a Three-Part Relation 9(1) Trust and Cooperation 10(1) Acting on Trust as Involving Risk 11(2) The Rationality of Trust 13(1) One-Way Trust 14(3) Mutual Trust 17(4) Thick Relationships 21(2) From Interests to Well-being 23(1) Concluding Remarks 24(4) Chapter 2 Trustworthiness 28(26) Trust and Trustworthiness 29(3) Dispositions of Trustworthiness 32(1) Bald Dispositions 33(3) Moral Dispositions for Trustworthiness 36(2) Moral Rules 38(1) Consequences 39(1) External Motivations for Trustworthiness 40(2) Social Constraints 42(4) Institutional Constraints 46(2) Norms of Trustworthiness 48(4) Concluding Remarks 52(2) Chapter 3 Conceptions and Misconceptions 54(35) Conceptual Confusions 55(1) Trust as Reductive Versus Non-Reductive 56(2) Trust as Behavioral Versus Cognitive 58(2) Trust as a Two-Part Relation: Open-Ended Trust 60(1) Trust as a Two-Part Relation: Generalized or Social Trust 60(2) Promise Keeping and Trust 62(3) Trusting and Entrusting 65(1) Other Visions of Trust 66(1) Trust as Not Knowledge 67(1) Trust as Noncognitive 68(1) Trust as Ungrounded Faith 69(4) Trust as Scant Expectations 73(1) Trust as Moral 74(4) Trust as Dependent on Characteristics of the Trusted 78(1) Instant Trust 79(2) Trust as a Good 81(1) Trustworthiness as a Commodity 82(1) Trustworthiness as Social Capital 83(1) Motivations and Trustworthiness 84(3) Concluding Remarks 87(2) Chapter 4 Distrust 89(24) Asymmetries Between Trust and Distrust 90(3) Uncertainty and Distrust 93(2) Pervasive Distrust 95(3) Subsistence Communities 98(2) Power and Distrust 100(3) Social Uses of Distrust 103(4) Distrust and Liberal Government 107(1) Cooperation Without Trustworthiness 108(2) Concluding Remarks 110(3) Chapter 5 The Epistemology of Trust 113(20) Street-Level Epistemology 115(1) The Learned Capacity to Trust 116(3) Low and High Capacity for Trust 119(1) Modeling Learned Capacity to Trust 120(4) Shortcomings of the Model 124(1) Further Implications of the Learned Capacity to Trust 125(1) The Outsider 126(1) Sanctions and Trust 127(2) Concluding Remarks 129(4) Chapter 6 Managing Trust 133(18) Developmental Accounts of Trust 134(1) Psychological Development 134(1) Genetic Evolutionary Development 135(2) Social Evolutionary Development 137(1) Initiation of Trust Relations 138(1) Reputational Incentives 139(1) Intermediaries in Trust 140(2) Falling in Love 142(2) Shared Interests 144(1) Maintenance of Trust Through Feedback 145(5) Concluding Remarks 150(1) Chapter 7 Trust and Government 151(22) Governmental Trustworthiness 152(2) Citizen Trust of Government 154(2) Quasi Trust 156(3) Declining Trust in Government 159(5) Distrust in Government 164(4) Endemic Distrust 168(2) Concluding Remarks 170(3) Chapter 8 Trust and Society 173(28) Cooperation in Dyads 175(5) Cooperation in Groups 180(1) Collective Action 181(2) Norms of Cooperativeness 183(3) Cooperation in the Economy 186(5) Cooperation in Institutional Settings 191(2) Trust and Social Structure 193(4) Concluding Remarks 197(4) Appendix Survey Questions on Trust 201(2) Notes 203(14) References 217(10) Index 227