Moreover, emotions form a foundation for entering into relationships of trust with other people to whom the emotion itself does not extend. Anyone who is emotionally rooted in a circle of people, a home, a role constellation with tasks and duties, is thereby supported in opening up relationships of trust outside this narrow circle. The emotional attachment of the child to his family is, for example, the foundation for the learning of all trust. In this way readiness to trust can survive as a habitual and proven attitude long after the emotions to which it owes its existence have faded.

XREF: Connects to attachment theory (Bowlby, Ainsworth) and Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, where basic trust emerges from early caregiver relationships.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 289