On 8/20/13 2:36 PM, glen wrote:
I'd also introduce other sort of trust: investment risk reduction, or
TT5.
e.g. institution of marriage/child-bearing, shared secret or stigmatized
behaviors, e.g. historically the LGBT community, criminal enterprises,
intelligence community, and so on.
I don't understand. Do you mean positive trust, e.g. I trust in the
criminal enterprise so I will invest? Or do you mean a kind of
negative trust, e.g. the LGBT community is not strong/prominent
enough, so I'll remain in the closet? Or perhaps both?
For example, in the case of a minority group (LGBT) in an non-accepting
environment, there is a benefit in sticking together and creating
organizations that facilitate the desired interaction. They don't really
have any other *reason* to trust one other than that they have a shared
interest to protect. An individual is high dimensional and sexual
orientation/preference is just one dimension, but one that has been
known to take on exaggerated importance in social contexts.
In the case of mobsters, they know that they are criminals and risk
punishment if they don't protect each other and their information.
In relevant situations, individuals in such groups can predict, in a
positive and reinforcing way, what their peers in this group will do in
certain situations better than they would of other people, even if the
others are people, say, that they have more complex cognitive
interactions and other kinds of trust relationships... say day-to-day
work relationships..
Marcus
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