"Alexa, Can I Trust You?"

It Ain’t What You Do (But the Way That You Do It): Will Safety II Transform the Way We Do Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

Mannion and Braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety – Safety II. In this response, I argue that Safety I should not be dismissed simply because the safety management strategies that are developed and enacted in the name of Safety I are not always true to the original philosophy of ‘systems thinking.’

An Exploratory Study on the Use of 'I Love You' in the American Context

This study explores the use of the English locution I love you in the American context. The data were collected through a focus discussion group and a survey questionnaire. 120 college undergraduate students from a large public American university participated in the study with 28 attending the focus discussion group and 92 completing the survey questionnaire. The findings indicated th...

You Seem Friendly, But Can I Trust You?

A “stranger agent” is an agent you did not build but may need to work with. Such strangers may come with a certificate saying “I have been tested, trust me”. In the special case of nondeterministic agents built via FSMs, the level to which we can trust this certificate can be determined via a simple summary of topological features of the agent.

Partiality and prejudice in trusting

You can trust your friends. You should trust your friends. Not all of your friends all of the time: you can reasonably trust different friends to different degrees, and in different domains. Still, we often trust our friends, and it is often reasonable to do so.Why is this? In this paper I explore how and whether friendship gives us reasons to trust our friends, reasons which may outstrip or co...

Trust, Monitoring, and Cooperation 1 RUNNING HEAD: Trust, Monitoring, and Cooperation Can I Trust You to Trust Me? A Theory of Trust, Monitoring, and Cooperation in Interpersonal and Intergroup Relationships