Acquisition of the opponent’s model and achieving mutual trust with others are notable traits of humankind's intelligence. Achieving mutual trust is a big challenge for artificial intelligences, and it is a key factor in trading. However, how players observe each others’ behaviors and how they achieve mutual trust are not fully known. In this study, we researched the growth of a mutual trust pr...

Trust has been extensively studied in fields as varied as economics [13,17], business and marketing [8,24], politics, e-commerce [1,14,41], psychology [7,42,50], sociology [27], medicine, nursing [15], and computing science [10,11,19,39,40,44]. Whilst many definitions of trust have been proposed, none has been agreed upon. However, there have been some good efforts in inventorizing the differen...

There is much talk about the trust crisis in China and the possible role of religion in rebuilding China’s moral order. This study is an attempt to examine religion’s impact on the emerging market economy in China, focusing on trust in business relations that might be generated by the Christian faith. Based on 43 in-depth interviews with Christian entrepreneurs in China, our study shows that th...

The present study explored social and emotional loneliness, and victimisation among a sample of adult male prisoners. 241 prisoners took part, completing a behavioural measure of behaviours indicative of bullying (DIPC-R: Direct and Indirect Prisoner behaviour Checklist, Ireland, J.L. 2003. The Direct and Indirect Prisoner behaviour Checklist -- Revised. Psychology Department, University of Cen...

This study reports and analyses rates and correlates of repeat victimisation in selected European cities. Rates of repeat were lower outside the English cities surveyed. However, the extreme level of repeat victimisation among dacha victims in Miskolc, Hungary, proved startling, indicating the vulnerability of such property to burglary. There are marked differences between levels of repeat vict...

BACKGROUND Despite increasing evidence suggesting that childhood maltreatment is significantly associated with psychosis, the specific role of bullying in the onset of psychotic disorders is still unclear. This study aimed to examine whether bullying was more prevalent amongst individuals presenting to services for the first time with a psychotic disorder than in unaffected community controls. ...

trust is one of the most important factors for the development of electronic banking. the purpose of this study is to determine effective factors on trust in e-banking in the form of a conceptual model. due to the rapid growth of electronic banking in the country, identify factors affecting trust in e-banking is very important. population of this study is customers of bank melli in urmia. we us...