Jamal Awil

← Trust and Trustworthiness

Accurate trust assessment requires viewing others' incentives strategically [causal]

To break the hold of a bad and misleading past, the inductivist requires a lot of new experience or a bit of theory that runs counter to prior experience. … 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.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 602