Social Dynamics

Roles: trust, betrayal, verification, reputation, paranoia, insider, outsider, credential

The mechanics of trust, reputation, and verification between agents in a social system. Distinct from general social behavior in its focus on the epistemic problem: how do you know who to trust, and what do you do when you cannot know? This frame powers security metaphors like zero-trust, where interpersonal paranoia becomes architectural principle.

As Source Frame (3)

• Boundary Object
• Unwelcome Party Guest → psychotherapy
• Zero Trust → network-security

Applied To This Frame (12)

• carpentry → Against the Grain
• materials → Attachment as Bond
• collaborative-work → Barn-Raising
• ecology → Food Chain
• biology → Generativity
• medicine → Identity Crisis
• ecology → Invasive Species
• architecture-and-building → Mosaic of Subcultures
• ecology → Parasitism as Metaphor
• religion → Scapegoat
• economics → Status Transactions
• ecology → Tipping Point