The outcomes of the decisions we make can be used to inform subsequent choices and behavior. We investigated whether and how people with and without schizophrenia use positive and negative social outcomes and emotional displays to inform decisions to place trust in social partners. We also investigated the impact of reversals in social partners' behavior on decisions to trust. Thirty-two people...

Trust issue is developing into an important topic as the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous within everyday life. Although a lot of studies focus on salient factors that persuade consumer trust towards online vendors, few studies address the issue that online trust could be affected by consumers using cognitive information processes or simple cues to build their trust toward online vendor...

In everyday life, we rely on recommendations from others to choose from various available options. While taking recommendations, people prefer recommendations from friends as they trust them to be their well wishers. This trust is referred to as friendship trust. A trust based recommender system where opinions are taken from trust worthy acquaintances to get personalized responses is proposed i...

Social networks in which users or agents are connected to other agents and sources by trust relations are an important part of many web applications where information may come from multiple sources. Trust recommendations derived from these social networks are supposed to help agents develop their own opinions about how much they may trust other agents and sources. Despite the recent development...

Transnational or global partnerships and intercultural strategic alliances require organizational leaders who will proactively engage risk and establish initial trust at the earliest stage of the emerging new relationship, especially where the prospective partnership must overcome a hostile external environment in which risk is high. Recent models of trust have emphasized the importance of trus...

A violation of trust can have quite different consequences, depending on the nature of the relationship in which the trust breach occurs. In this article, we identify a key relationship characteristic that affects trust recovery: the extent of relationship experience before the trust breach. Across two experiments, this investigation establishes the behavioral effect that greater relationship e...

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic growth game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the laboratory economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with equal endowments, but decreases over time. In a treatment with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains relatively stable. The reason i...