BACKGROUND Use of mobile phones has rapidly risen among adolescents despite a lack of scientific certainty on their health risks. Risk perception is an important determinant of behavior, and studies on adolescents' risk perceptions of mobile phones or base stations are very scarce. This study aims to evaluate high school students' risk perceptions on mobile phones and base stations, their trust...

After arguing about the crucial importance of trust for Agents and MAS, we provide a definition of trust both as a mental state and as a social attitude and relation. We present the mental ingredients of trust: its specific beliefs and goals, with special attention to evaluations and expectations. We show the relation between trust and the mental background of delegation. We explain why trust i...

Trust towards unrelated individuals is often conditioned by information about previous social interactions that can be derived from either personal or vicarious experience (e.g., reputation). Intergroup stereotypes can be operationalized as expectations about other groups' traits/attitudes/behaviors that heavily influence our behavioral predictions when interacting with them. In this study we i...

The research aims to increase customer buying interest through personal selling. Interest in insurance Indonesia is low because there no trust insurance. To trust, direct interaction needed. Interaction manifested Service Quality and Social Interaction. object of PT Prudential Life Assurance. uses a quantitative approach statistical testing. test was carried out using the Structural Equation Mo...

Under the burgeoning development of urbanization in China, low-income groups have received attention recently. By applying a linear regression model and utilizing date from 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey, this study has explored effects urban environments on community trust groups, paying particular to difference between local residents migrants Pearl River Delta (PRD). The empirical fi...

This study utilized the hierarchical linear model and trust as a mediator; designated leader emotional intelligence team-level dimension; transformational leadership, transactional in supervisor individual-level dimensions. An analysis was performed to explore relationships between these individual- variables job performance of real estate brokers, well potential role trust-oriented leadership ...

The use of mobile payment (m-payment) is growing exponentially in developing countries. A small number investigations have been undertaken on what makes people continue to m-payment an African context. We combine the task technology fit (TTF) model, expectation-confirmation model (ECM), and trust dimension explain influence continuance m-payment. collected 384 valid questionnaire responses from...