# crisis of confidence (collapse)

A sudden narrowing of the reach members of a collective self read another or the group as having, so each narrows its own reach and the narrowing comes true.

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [morale](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-morale.collective), [trust](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trust.reliance), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [sudden](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sudden.temporal), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [true](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-true.accurate)

**Through:** Trust lets members act on a model instead of checking it; when the model is doubted all at once, each withdraws, and the sum of withdrawals removes the reach that was only doubted.

**Novel properties:**
- a doubt that makes itself true
- a fall with no change in the thing doubted until it happens

## Examples
- In September 2007 depositors queued outside Northern Rock branches to withdraw savings, the first run on a British bank in over a century. *(finance)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-crisis-of-confidence.collapse*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-crisis-of-confidence.collapse.json*  
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