The failure of early investment by my parents and others need not correlate with the untrustworthiness of my associates in later life, but it might. The very fact that I have a hard time trusting even those who would turn out to be trustworthy may mean I fail to establish ongoing cooperative relations with such people and therefore disproportionately face short-term relations with people who, on average, are less trustworthy, thus reinforcing my attitude of distrust or wariness. Trusters and the trustworthy may interact chiefly with each

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 547