Social Trust and Social Network in Iran

Cultural and Demographic Foundations of Social Trust in Iran

This study primarily aims to examine the cultural and demographic foundations of social trust. The research findings presented and discussed in this paper are based on a survey that includes a total sample of 5200 males and females residing in varying rural and urban areas across Iran. In order to examine social trust more appropriately, it has been classified into three main domains: trust tow...

Social trust and social factors affecting it among the students

Abstract: Social confidence is a form of social relationships that means social interaction and action of all people of the society in all political, economic and cultural social different fields. The aim of this study is the sociology survey of students’ social confidence in two teacher training centers (TTC) of Shaheed Sharafat and Bahonar in Tehran and its effective social factors. The s...

Privacy, Trust and Social Network Formation

We study in the laboratory the impact of private information revelation on the selection of partners when forming individual networks. Our experiment combines a “network game” and a “public-good game”. In the network game, individuals decide with whom to form a link with, while in the public-good game they decide whether or not to contribute. The variations in our treatments allow us to identif...

Trust, Social Network and Electronic Commerce Adoption

Trust-based Service Recommendation in Social Network

With the number of Web services increasing constantly on the Internet, how to recommend personalized Web services for users has become more and more important. At present, there emerged some service recommendation systems utilizing influence ranking and collaborative filtering algorithms in service recommendation. However, they neither considered trust relationships among users, nor deal with t...