An analysis of data from the U.S. Biotechnology Study, 1997S1998 reveals that few variables affect public trust in scientists, while variables representing perceived benefits, risks, trustworthiness, and competence affect trust in food manufacturers on matters of biotechnology. Both trust in scientists and trust in food manufacturers have a large and important effect on public support for biote...

A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust. One of the most salient factors m the effecdveness of our.A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust. Article first published online: 28 APR 2006. Tb01454.x. A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust. PMID: 4865583 PubMed indexed for MEDLINE. Psychometric properties of a new trust inventory the Propensity to Trust....

In this paper, a trust region method for generalized semi-infinite programming problems is presented. The method is based on [O. Yi-gui, “A filter trust region method for solving semi-infinite programming problems”, J. Appl. Math. Comput. 29, 311 (2009)]. We transformed the method from standard to generalized semi-infinite programming problems. The semismooth reformulation of the Karush–Kuhn–Tu...

Bosnia and Herzegovina has experienced a turbulent post-independence transition. It can be argued that the level of trust is likely to have been negatively affected by this turbulence and that it is important to restore trust to achieve sustainable political and economic development. This paper looks at trust in Bosnia and Herzegovina and puts a special focus on the role of ethnicity. We find g...

Previous research has indicated that socio-economic and racial characteristics of an individual’s environment influence not only group consciousness and solidarity, but also affect his or her views toward minority or majority groups. Missing from this research is a consideration of how context, social interaction, and interracial experiences combine to shape more general psychological orientati...

We propose an opinion dynamics model that combines processes of vanity and opinion propagation. The interactions take place between randomly chosen pairs. During an interaction, the agents propagate their opinions about themselves and about other people they know. Moreover, each individual is subject to vanity: if her interlocutor seems to value her highly, then she increases her opinion about ...

The majority of existing trust models is based on three underlying assumptions: (i) proven identity of agents, (ii) repetitive interactions and (iii) similar trusting situations. In our work, we address these assumptions by introduction of simple classification techniques in our mechanism that extends existing trust models, rather than by introduction of a new model. The proposed approach forma...

The classical trust region algorithm was extended to the nonsmooth minimization problem successful by Qi and Sun. Combining the trust region algorithm of Qi and Sun and the trust region algorithm with radius bounded below of Jiang for solving generalized complementarity problems, this paper present a new trust region algorithm with radius bounded below for the unconstrained nonsmooth optimizati...

This review considers that aspect of the voluminous trust literature that deals with race. After discussing the social conditions within which trust becomes relevant and outlining the distinctive contours of the three most common conceptualizations of trust—generalized, particularized, and strategic—I elaborate on the extent and nature of ethnoracial trust differences and provide an overview of...