If it is true that humans are characterized by a lack of fine-tuning and a tendency to go to extremes (Elster 1983), the assumption that trust will emerge naturally is singularly unjustified.

XREF: Connects to Elster's 1983 work on human nature and social theory, likely relevant to trust and cooperation debates in institutional design.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 2811