Comment by rickjaxjames on How do high-trust societies form? · 2024-02-14T12:33:32.062Z · LW · GW

Japan should really be considered as a major focus of this discussion because it functions as a control for WEIRD effects. 

The encoding of social emotions, like shame,sensitivitywon't seems very important as well. You need to have genuine emotional sensitive to the judgment and feelings of others, if you don't those mechanisms wont work. Japan is supremely brutal in its subtle social judgments. 

As I have traveled I noticed a significant correlation with low functioning low trust societies and not caring what others think or at least not paying attention to the needs of others unless they are actively voiced. 

There may be a correlation between such emotions and suicide as well.