Several studies have indicated that between-group competition is a key stimulator of trust and trustworthiness. Another important but neglected type of competition may also affect trust and trustworthiness: within-group competition, especially competition among acquaintances. The present study investigated the effects of both within- and between-group competition on trust and trustworthiness, w...

Trusting people requires evaluating them to assess their trustworthiness. Evaluating a stranger's intentions is likely to be one method of assessing trustworthiness. The present study tested the hypothesis that judgments of trustworthiness are associated with mind reading skills, also called theory of mind (ToM). We tested a group of healthy participants and a group of patients with paranoid sc...

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...

The WWW is the most important source of information. But, there is no guarantee for information correctness and lots of conflicting information is retrieved by the search engines and the quality of provided information also varies from low quality to high quality. We provide enhanced trustworthiness in both specific (entity) and broad (content) queries in web searching. The filtering of trustwo...

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...

this paper studies the effect of gender differences in mate preference in one of the major iranian online dating services. to best of our knowledge, there are only few similar studies conducted with this objective focusing on iran. a quantitative approach is used in this paper which is inferred from a database of approximately 84 thousands of users from various geographical locations inside ira...

We argue that the advent of autonomous systems profoundly changes the nature of security arguments. Whereas security in socio-economic systems fundamentally relies on human beings to be the ultimate resolvers of trust decisions, this can no longer be the case for truly autonomous systems. In order to understand how to build such autonomous systems there is a need to create a logical theory of t...

Question answering systems try to give precise answers to a user's question posed in natural language. It is of utmost importance that the answers returned are relevant to the user's question. For clinical QA, the trustworthiness of answers is another important issue. Limiting the document collection to certified websites helps to improve the trustworthiness of answers. On the other hand, limit...

Existing computational trust systems analyze information networks to determine the “trustworthiness” of the nodes, but the scalar values they produce are both opaque and semantically variable, and knowing only that the trustworthiness of a website is “27” is not helpful to the user. Moreover, the simplistic means by which they are typically calculated can yield misleading results, sometimes dra...