Can Bureaucrats Break Trust? Testing Cultural and Institutional Theories of Trust with Chinese Panel Data

Can We Trust Trust?

In this concluding essay I shall try to reconstruct what seem to me the central questions about trust that the individual contributions presented in this volume raise and partly answer. In the first section, I briefly qualify the claim that there is a degree of rational cooperation that should but does not exist, and I shall give a preliminary indication of the importance of the beliefs we hold...

Can you Trust your Data?

A new program analysis is presented, and two compile time methods for this analysis are given. The analysis attempts to answer the question: “Given some trustworthy and some untrustworthy input, can we trust the value of a given variable after execution of some code”. The analyses are based on an abstract interpretation framework and a constraint generation framework respectively. The analyses ...

Can we trust your data?

From cognitive trust theories to computational trust

Among the several categories of trust models, cognitive models have important features. Initially these models were only informally defined, but formalizations were recently proposed. The concepts of the models are thus sufficiently well defined to be implemented and evaluated. In this paper, the cognitive trust model proposed by Castelfranchi and Falcone is integrated into a BDI (belief, desir...

Cultural and Demographic Foundations of Social Trust in Iran

This study primarily aims to examine the cultural and demographic foundations of social trust. The research findings presented and discussed in this paper are based on a survey that includes a total sample of 5200 males and females residing in varying rural and urban areas across Iran. In order to examine social trust more appropriately, it has been classified into three main domains: trust tow...