Extending trust to immigrants: Generalized trust, cross-group friendship and anti-immigrant sentiments in 21 European societies

Extending trust to immigrants: Generalized trust, cross-group friendship and anti-immigrant sentiments in 21 European societies

The aim of this study is twofold. First, we expand on the literature by testing whether generalized trust is negatively related to anti-immigrant sentiments in Europe. Second, we examine to what extent the relation between generalized trust and anti-immigrant sentiments is dependent upon cross-group friendships. We apply multilevel linear regression modeling to representative survey data enrich...

Trust in Agent Societies

The problem of identifying influencers in an online social network (OSN) has received a lot of attention recently. However, the influence a user has on an OSN depends a lot on how active they are, besides their reputation, or the quality of information they are capable of providing. This can be misleading: a common observation about many OSNs is that the most influential users there are not wel...

Modulating Friendship Trust into Context Level Trust in Trust Based Recommender Systems

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...

Friendship and the Structure of Trust

Extending Trust in Peer-to-Peer Networks

This paper presents a way of reducing the risk involved with downloading corrupt content from unknown (and hence untrusted) principals in a P2P network. This paper gives a brief overview of the need for trust in P2P networks, introduces a new notion called trust*, and shows how this may be used in place of the conventional notion of trust. Finally, we apply trust* to the Turtle P2P client and s...