This study examines perceptions about trust among people engaged in community-institutional partnerships. Focus groups were conducted with community, health department, and academic representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program. When asked to describe expectations about working with partners, the main themes identified were skepticism,...

Trust is typically portrayed as beneficial to all concerned; something which is inherently good. In this article we focus on interpersonal trust and argue that, while there are undoubted benefits, trust can also be problematic; there are circumstances in which it can become a ‘poisoned chalice’ for one or other of the parties involved. We question whether the potential for negative experiences ...

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...

While self-report measures are often highly reliable for field research on trust (Mayer and Davis, 1999), subjects often cannot complete surveys during real time interactions. In contrast, the social signals that are embedded in the non-linguistic elements of conversations can be captured in real time and extracted with the assistance of computer coding. This chapter seeks to understand how com...

results multiple regression analyses showed that motives and maternal overprotection were the main predictors of problematic facebook use symptoms in both genders. mediation analyses suggested that borderline personality traits and overprotection played different roles in the development of problematic facebook use symptoms. in females, borderline traits were a mediator in the relation between ...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to examine interpersonal trust in Muslim matrimonial sites (MMS) from a male perspective. Specifically how users perceive interpersonal trust in MMS; what are the signs of lack of trust in MMS (if any); and what strategies do users adopt to handle the lack of trust in MMS. Design/methodology/approach – This empirical qualitative study used ethnographic techniq...