Trust is considered as the crucial factor for agents in decision making to choose the most trustworthy partner during their interaction in open distributed multiagent systems. Most current trust models are the combination of experience trust and reference trust, in which the reference trust is estimated from the judgements of agents in the community about a given partner. These models are based...

The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an opportunity to appropriate these gains or be trustworthy by sharing them. Players are strangers because they do not know the identity of others and they ...

The aim of this study was to compare the social capital indicators of members and non-members of cooperatives in Siahkal County.  The sample size was calculated by the Cochran formula to include300individuals (150 member cooperatives and 150 non-members of the cooperative) that were selected by the stratified random sampling method. The main tool employed in this study was a questionnaire that ...

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....

OBJECTIVE The present research addresses the question of how trust in systems is formed when unequivocal information about system accuracy and reliability is absent, and focuses on the interaction of indirect information (others' evaluations) and direct (experiential) information stemming from the interaction process. BACKGROUND Trust in decision-supporting technology, such as route planners,...

Trust computing has become more important on Web-based Social Networks (WBSNs), such as MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn where people interact and seek information based on trust. On existing WBSN platforms, users can explicitly specify trust value to which they have direct relationship with. The user can then make a decision based on this trust value of others and their opinions. However, the u...

Prior research has indicated that employee turnover is detrimental to both individuals and organisations. Because a turnover intention in the workplace is detrimental, several factors have been suggested to better understand the reasons why employees may decide to leave their organisations. Some of the organizational-related factors that have been considered by previous research include perceiv...