Mental models/Transparency Effect
Trust & Safety

Transparency Effect

The principle that making processes, reasoning, and information visible increases perceived trustworthiness, even when the underlying outcome is unchanged.

In plain language

Showing your work builds trust disproportionately. People trust processes they can see more than outcomes they can't.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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