Trust is a social phenomenon that impacts the situation awareness of individuals and indirectly their decision-making. However, most of the existing computational models of situation awareness do not take interpersonal trust into account. Contrary to those models, this study introduces a computational, agent-based situation awareness model incorporating trust to enable building more human-like ...

The purpose of this study is to propose an interpersonal trust (iTrust) model to better understand the online consumer cognitive and affective reactions in a B2C website. This study provides proposition on the influence of culture (Individualistic and Collectivistic) on the relationship between cognitive-based and web design and affect-based trust to buyer behavior aspects towards purchase inte...

This study uses Trust-TAM to describe and empirically test a behavioral model of software component adoption. Three sets of predictive factors were tested and found to be statistically significant in their relationship with intention to adopt: the consumer’s perception of the trustworthiness of the component producer, the adoption-related characteristics of the component, and the organizational...

The primary purpose of the current research has been to examine the roles of interpersonal, interorganizational, and institutional trust in establishing buyer-seller trust in public B2B e-marketplaces (EMP). Interpersonal trust refers to trust within the buyer-seller dyad. Interorganizational trust is trust between organizations, in this case mainly the buying and the selling company versus the...

Abstract International relations theory has had a trust revival, with scholars focusing on how can enhance interpersonal cooperation attempts between leaders. We propose there is another type of at play in world politics. system feeling confidence the international social order, which indexed especially by its central unit, state persons. System anchors ontological security, and presence an uns...

Trust has been researched from various perspectives, focusing mainly on interpersonal trust in a traditional world of face-toface interaction. Nowadays, technology has changed the ways people interact with each other, and thus the way trust is established or destroyed. Increasingly often we interact with representations of others mediated through technology rather than with people or organizati...

According to recent dual-process theories, interpersonal trust is influenced by both impulsive and deliberative processes. The present research explores the determinants of deliberative trust, investigating how trust decisions are affected by the availability of cognitive resources. We test the interaction of two relevant factors: self-control (the ability to exert mental control over one’s beh...

This study investigated how trusting behavior varies in naturally cycling women, as a function of sex and attractiveness of players in a trust game, at three distinct phases of the menstrual cycle. Women acted more cautiously in an investment game at the preovulatory phase, compared to the menstrual and the mid-luteal phase. Reduced willingness to trust in strangers was particularly expressed t...

The broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson, 1998, 2001) predicts that positive emotions broaden the scopes of attention and cognition, thereby facilitating the building of personal resources and initiating upward spirals toward increasing emotional well-being. This study attempts to replicate and extend previous empirical support for this model. Using a sample of 185 undergraduates, we assessed ...