Critical thinking, trust and confirmation towards social media have become increasingly important in this period called the post-truth era when reality has indistinct, is reproduced, truth undermined. The study aimed to examine prospective teachers' / levels critical thinking tendencies terms of various variables. research was conducted with relational survey model. tendency scale confirmation/...

Communication technologies are becoming increasingly diverse in form and functionality. A central concern is the ability to detect whether others are trustworthy. Judgments of trustworthiness rely, in part, on assessments of non-verbal cues, which are affected by media representations. In this research, we compared trust formation on three media representations. We presented 24 participants wit...

In a Virtual Enterprise (VE), there are three main functions for an IT infrastructure: support VE formation, track and monitor the execution of customer orders, and support the problem management (delays, re-configurations, re-routings). Formation and problem management implies complex interaction, and one of the crucial aspects of these two functions is the ability of the agents to perform neg...

Internet chauffeured car (abbreviated as ICC) is a typical representative of the innovative mobile commerce and has gained rapidly development in a short period. But research about its users’ adoption behavior is not reach. The changing market environment also makes it important for ICC platforms timely grasp their users’ adoption behavior characteristics. Our study is based on the user’s view....

This study considers the impact of trustworthiness on financial markets at the individual transaction level. We employ a natural experiment using the peer-to-peer lending site, Prosper.com. We find that borrowers who are perceived as less trustworthy are economically and significantly less likely to have their loan requests filled, even controlling for physical attractiveness, detailed demograp...

Background: This study examined whether automatic attention bias toward emotional stimuli differs among individuals with varying anxiety and depression levels in the non-clinical population.Methods: A total of 494 participants from community completed Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7). The dot-probe task was conducted to compare biases when appeared b...

Regulating water resources is a critically important yet increasingly complex component of the interaction between ecology and society. Many argue that effective water regulation relies heavily upon the compliance of water users. The relevant literature suggests that, rather than relying on external motivators for individual compliance, e.g., punishments and rewards, it is preferable to focus o...

In recent years, online transactions have become more prevalent than it was. This means that the number of online users to perform such transactions keeps growing, causing an increase in the level of expectations for them. One of those expectations is to enable them to get a better understanding of such transactions before going ahead with it. Consequently, trust and reputation models represent...

An implicit assumption of trust in the participants is at the basis of most Peer-toPeer (P2P) networks. However, in practice, not all participants are benign or cooperative. Identifying such peers is critical to the smooth and effective functioning of a P2P network. In this paper, we present the ROCQ mechanism, a reputation-based trust management system that computes the trustworthiness of peer...