This paper intends to contribute to the (bounded rationality) foundations of trust, showing how the concept of trust is related to the basic hypothesis on the behavior of the two people involved. First, I briefly review some definitions of trust found in the literature, and attempt to establish...

This paper intends to analyze the foundations of trust in a context of bounded rationality. Building on previous work, we show how bounded rationality provides a rationale for the concept of trust that goes beyond the common calculative notion. We show that there are four types of trust and that...