An outstanding puzzle in the social sciences remains about the forms of perceived trustworthiness sufficient to produce trust. Survey experiments adjudicated between four models of the trustworthiness-trust link—social constraints, encapsulated interests, goodwill, and virtuous dispositions—and tested novel hypotheses about other-praising emotions (admiration and gratitude) as mediating effects...

Trust is expected to reduce transaction costs and agency costs and thus influence the cost of credit for small businesses. Assessments of trustworthiness are based on the ability, benevolence and integrity of the owner manager. The study examines whether lending managers’ assessments of the trustworthiness of SME owner managers are associated with the interest rate charged. Data were obtained f...

Many Internet trading platforms rely on 'feedback systems' to increase trust and trustworthiness and thus gains-from-trade in anonymous transactions. Competition creates incentives that arguably may enhance or curb the effectiveness of these feedback systems. We investigate how competition for trading partners or for price compared to the absence of competition influences the buyers' trust and ...

Face evaluation is a key aspect of face processing in humans, serving important functions in regulating social interactions. Adults and preschool children readily evaluate faces with respect to a person's trustworthiness and dominance. However, it is unclear whether face evaluation is mainly a product of extensive learning or a foundational building block of face perception already during infan...

Trust is expected to reduce transaction costs and agency costs and thus influence the cost of credit for small businesses. Assessments of trustworthiness are based on the ability, benevolence and integrity of the owner manager. The study examines whether lending managers’ assessments of the trustworthiness of SME owner managers are associated with the interest rate charged. Data were obtained f...

In a principal–agent framework, principals can mitigate moral hazard problems not only through extrinsic incentives such as monitoring, but also through agents’ intrinsic trustworthiness. Their relative usage, however, changes over time and varies across societies. This paper attempts to explain this phenomenon by endogenizing agent trustworthiness as a response to potential returns. It …nds th...

In a public key infrastructure trust model, a trust is transferred along a set of certificates, issued by certificate authorities (CAs) considered as trustfully third parties, providing a trust chain among its entities. In order to deserve this trustworthiness, a CA should to apply the rigorous procedures for generating keys, checking the identities, and following reliable security practices. A...

Web services selection aims to choose an appropriate web service among a number of service candidates. The trustworthiness of web services is an important metric for web services selection. Many trustworthiness based web services selecting methods have been proposed in the academic community. However, the fidelity of web service's supporting websites (e.g. the websites providing the service, or...

We analyze untrustworthy interactions, that is, interactions in which a party may fail to carry out its obligations. Such interactions pose agents with the problem of how to estimate the trustworthiness of the other party. The efficiency of untrustworthy interactions critically depends on the amount and the nature of information about untrustworthy agents. We propose a solution to the problem o...

Ad hoc networks are widely used in military and other scientific area. There are various kind of routing protocols are available to establish the route, with the proper analyzation one can choose the routing protocol to form their own network with respect to number of nodes and security considerations. The mobility of nodes makes the environment infrastructure less. It also has a certain number...