Trusting anonymous institutions

The Coevolution of Trust and Institutions in Anonymous and Non-anonymous Communities

We report on a research program that employs the indirect evolutionary approach to analyze how the institutional environment drives the evolution of trust and trustworthiness through the evolution of moral preferences, and how in turn the evolution of preferences shapes the evolution of the rules of the game. In particular, we describe how the ability to detect trustworthiness in non-anonymous ...

Trusting Constitutions

Two explanations for the importance of trusting constitutions are offe-red : First, constitutions that convey trust towards citizens have posi-tive effects by fostering civic virtue. A crucial factor of a trusting con-stitution is the extent to which the citizens are allowed to actively par-ticipate in the political process. We present empirical evidence thatparticipation vi...

Trusting Emergence

Trusting an Information Agent

While the common kinds of uncertainties in databases e g null values disjunction corrupt missing data domain mis match etc have been extensively studied a relatively unexplored form of uncertainty in databases called inaccurate data demands due attention Inaccurate data results when data are contributed by various information agents with some known reliability Though the data itself is total or...

Trusting Social Location Technologies

Social networks provide rich opportunities to interact with friends and other members. While research on motivations and interaction design help explain what makes online communities successful, the influence of trust on social location technologies and interactions that integrate online and off-line activities remains unclear. Drawing from research on information systems, social psychology, an...