Jamal Awil

← Trust and Trustworthiness

Showing trust can create incentives for the trusted to reciprocate. [causal]

There are other possibilities. You might extend hospitality or act as though you trust me in order to demonstrate to me that you have faith in my morality or character or to give me an opportunity to live up to your hopes even though I may have no incentive to reciprocate your action.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 1015