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 ...

Background The production of policy-relevant research is necessary, but not sufficient, to promote its utilization in policy. Decision-makers must believe it has value, and researchers need the desire and skills to translate their work effectively. Our objective was to understand the perspectives of state policymakers and health researchers on the barriers and facilitators to translation of hea...

The Internet of Things (IoT) and social networking integration, create a new concept named Social Internet of Things (SIoT) according to which the things are able to autonomously establish social relationships with regard to the owners. Things in SIoT operate according to a service-oriented architecture. There may be misbehaving owners and consequently misbehaving devices that can perform harmf...

Identifying homogeneous groups of stocks, where these stocks have similar movement of returns is called stock return comovement analysis. Stock return comovement analysis is important to financial analysts, decision makers, and academic researchers, in many financial implications. This paper examines firms’ social media, in particular, microblogging metrics’ role on analyzing stock return comov...

Sufficiently frequent interaction between partners has been identified by, a.o., Axelrod as a more-or-less sufficient condition for stable cooperation. The underlying argument is that rational cooperation is ensured if short-term benefits from opportunistic behavior are offset by the long-term costs of sanctions imposed on the culprit. This argument does not require that these sanctions are (on...

Recent developments in the pervasiveness and mobility of computer systems in open computer net­ works have invalidated traditional assumptions about trust in computer communications security. In a fundamentally decentralised and open network such as the Internet, the responsibility for answer­ ing the question of whether one can trust another entity on the network now lies with the individual a...

The rapid spread of social media has brought new ways for marketers to communicate and manage brands online. Celebrity endorsement has been a popular practice in social media, however, what contributes to its effectiveness has not been fully understood. To address this issue, this study examines the effects of endorsement in social media towards brand attitude and merchandise attractiveness bas...

in recent years, collaborative filtering (cf) methods are important and widely accepted techniques are available for recommender systems. one of these techniques is user based that produces useful recommendations based on the similarity by the ratings of likeminded users. however, these systems suffer from several inherent shortcomings such as data sparsity and cold start problems. with the dev...

Changes in social behaviour from childhood to adulthood have been suggested to be driven by an increased sensitivity to others' perspectives. Yet, the link between perspective-taking and social processes, such as trust and reciprocity, has rarely been investigated during adolescence. Using two trust games with a cooperative and an unfair counterpart and an online perspective-taking task with 50...

Organizations often expect employees to collaborate with and trust the same coworkers with whom they compete for promotions and raises. This paper explores how social comparisons in self-relevant achievement domains influence affective and cognitive trust. We find that both upward and downward social comparisons harm trust. Upward comparisons harm affective trust and downward comparisons harm c...