Recent studies have shown that trusting attitudes and behavior are biologically influenced. Focusing on the classic trust game, it has been demonstrated that oxytocin increases trust and that humans are endowed with genetic variation that influences their behavior in the game. Moreover, several studies have shown that a large share of the variation in survey responses to trust items is accounte...

Trust is one of the most important means to improve the reliability of computing resources provided in cloud environment and it plays an important role in commercial cloud environments. Trust is the estimation of capability of a cloud resource in completing a task based on reputation, identity, behavior, and availability in the context of distributed environment. It helps customer in the select...

Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is one of the most propitious area in research and development of wireless network. Popularity of mobile device and wireless networks significantly increased over the past years. MANET has no centralized control to handle the network, so this may cause to fails the functioning. This characteristic force a component node to be careful when communicating with other n...

This study examined the relationships between employee perceptions of organizational justice and trust and employee antisocial organizational behavior and communication. Participants from organizations representing two geographic regions were surveyed regarding their most recent performance appraisal. Results indicated that perceptions of justice and trust negatively predicted indirect interper...

In this paper, we propose a new ridge-type estimator called the new mixed ridge estimator (NMRE) by unifying the sample and prior information in linear measurement error model with additional stochastic linear restrictions. The new estimator is a generalization of the mixed estimator (ME) and ridge estimator (RE). The performances of this new estimator and mixed ridge estimator (MRE) against th...

In this paper we ask whether leaders can serve as institutionally imposed solutions to the problem of trust. After briefly reviewing the problematic and fragile nature of trust and cooperation, we argue that leaders can encourage the formation of trust among a group of followers. Their ability to do so, however, is contingent on the willingness of followers to offer their trust to leaders. We t...

Knowledge sharing is common place online nowadays. Drawing from trust literature, we find trust mechanism behind knowledge sharing behavior may lead to useful implications. However, there exists a gap between theoretical and managerial perspective on the role of trust especially in online knowledge transfer. This study will try to study how technological and community factors influence trust fo...

Trust is conceived as an attitude leading to intentions resulting in user actions involving automation. It is generally believed that trust is dynamic and that a user’s prior experience with automation affects future behavior indirectly through causing changes in trust. Additionally, individual differences and cultural factors have been frequently cited as the contributors to influencing trust ...

Web-mediated consumer-to-consumer auctions are often regarded as risky due to the opportunistic behaviors in transaction. Online virtual community using feedback-based reputation service is an emerging trust building technology to reduce risk in online auction market. The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of feedback profiles on buyer’s purchase behavior. Based on previous researches...

This paper presents the influence of norms on agent trust and autonomy. Different attributes of norms were considered that accentuate trust and attenuate autonomy. Experimental results illustrate changes in trust and autonomy with different patterns of norm adherence. We also define stability as a result of predictable agent behavior and present related experiments.