This study explores several downstream effects of trust in virtual communities and the antecedents of trust in this unique type of environment. The data, applying an existing scale to measure two dimensions of trust (ability and benevolence/integrity), show that trust had a downstream effect on members’ intentions to both give information and get information through the virtual community. Both ...

Financial transactions that are made in an environment of imperfect knowledge will always contain a degree of risk. When dealing with humans or human organisations the relative knowledge about the co-operative behaviour of others can be perceived as trust, and trust therefore is a crucial factor in the decision making process. However, assessing trust becomes a problem in electronic transaction...

Financial transactions that are made in an environment of imperfect knowledge will always contain a degree of risk. When dealing with humans or human organisations the relative knowledge about the co-operative behaviour of others can be perceived as trust, and trust therefore is a crucial factor in the decision making process. However, assessing trust becomes a problem in electronic transaction...

Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation in online social systems, the underlying rules between the common interests and social relations are still under dispute. Do online users befriend others who have similar tastes, or do their tastes become more similar after they become friends? In this paper, we investigate the correlation between online...

Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse su...

On the basis of goal/expectation theory, it was predicted that just as in interpersonal relationships, cooperation in social dilemma groups would increase only if both trust was high and group members had a common goal of cooperation. Introducing new measures of both these two processes to the social dilemma arena, the goal of mutual cooperation was assessed by the process of self–other merging...

Networked environments which provide platforms for business organizations are configured in different forms depending on many factors including life time, member characteristics, communication structure, and business objectives, among others. With continuing advances in digital technologies the distance has become a less barrier for business minded collaboration among organizations. With the ne...

We exploit the fact that generosity and trustworthiness are highly correlated and the former can thus be a sign of the latter. Subjects decide between a generous and a mean split in a dictator game. Some of them are informed from the start that afterwards they will participate in a trust game and that their choice in the dictator game may matter; others are not informed in advance. In the trust...

Agents in Multi-Agent Systems depend on interactions with others to achieve their goals. Often, goals of agents conflict with each other, and agents can be unreliable or deceitful. Therefore, trust and reputation are key issues in this domain. As in human societies, software agents must interact with other agents in settings where there is the possibility that they can be exploited. This sugges...

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...