Generalized trust relieves individuals in a socially uncertain situation from dyadic constraints of existing ties and helps them change with other to acquire better resources. However, much evidence the emancipation role generalized as booster new relationship formation has been limited laboratory experiments or cross-sectional surveys. We conducted four-wave longitudinal survey test whether hi...

Standard measures of generalized trust in others are often taken to provide reliable indicators of economic attitudes in different countries. Here we compared three highly distinct groups, in Kenya, China and the US, in terms of more specific attitudes, [a] people's willingness to invest in the future, [b] their willingness to invest in others, and [c] their trust in institutions. Results sugge...

divine religions have a significant impact on formation of social norms and strengthening of social capital through the promotion of the moral virtues. the purpose of this study is to demonstrate the impact of doctrines, rituals and ethical teachings of islam on muslims’ social capital in the 40 countries using the generalized trust index and the ordinary least squares method. research findings...

Previous work has suggested that low levels of trust in ethnically diverse societies may be one mechanism explaining the negative relationship between diversity and economic growth. Building on theories developed in social psychology, I argue that increased national identification in such societies may reduce the negative effects of ethnic diversity on interpersonal trust by extending trust acr...

The interval bounded generalized trust region subproblem (GTRS) consists in minimizing a general quadratic objective, q0(x) → min, subject to an upper and lower bounded general quadratic constraint, l ≤ q1(x) ≤ u. This means that there are no definiteness assumptions on either quadratic function. We first study characterizations of optimality for this implicitly convex problem under a constrain...

BadRank is a method for detecting spam web sites, based on the premise that a page is spam if it points to another spam page; i.e., the BadRank score of a page is the weighted sum of the BadRank scores of the pages that it links to. BadRank is an important tool in spam detection. We consider the mathematical structure of BadRank, showing how it can be modified to guarantee that the iterates con...

Solution stability of a class of linear generalized equations in finite dimensional Euclidean spaces is investigated by means of generalized differentiation. Exact formulas for the Fréchet and the Mordukhovich coderivatives of the normal cone mappings of perturbed Euclidean balls are obtained. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the local Lipschitz-like property of the solution maps of such...

he purpose of this paper is to study the social and cultural factors that influence on youth's social trust in Mazandaran province. The theoreticalframework is based on social system theory in the form of action(T.Parsons) and the structure-agency of Anthony Giddens. The population is20 to 29 years old of Sari and Babol. 280 people were selected as the sample size. Sampling method is multi-stag...