Behavioral traits generally show moderate to strong genetic influence, with heritability estimates of around 50%. Some recent research has suggested that trust may be an exception because it is more strongly influenced by social interactions. In a sample of over 7,000 adolescent twins from the United Kingdom's Twins Early Development Study, we found broad sense heritability estimates of 57% for...

This chapter presents results from the qualitative field study conducted in a Silicon Valley-based American-Polish start-up joint venture. It investigates the issues of collaboration within one firm that is made up of individuals from two countries that differ dramatically in generalized trust: Poland and the United States. The authors explore differences between thick, knowledge-based forms of...

Background Considering the increasing demand for health services by older people and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, digital is commonly viewed to offer a pathway provide safe affordable adults, thus enabling self-management of their while care systems are struggling. However, several factors cause be particularly reluctant adopt technologies such as mobile (mHealth) tools. In addition previously st...

Trust underlies effective interactions among autonomous parties. Ideally, a truster would base its trust in a trustee on the evidence of prior experiences with the trustee. But, such experiences arise between only a few trusters and trustees. Thus, a truster must rely upon the propagation of trust through a path of intermediary agents, each providing a trust assessment in the next. However, exi...

BACKGROUND The past decade has seen a vast increase in empirical research investigating associations between social capital and health outcomes. Literature reviews reveal 'generalized trust' and 'social participation' to be the most robust of the commonly used social capital proxies, both showing positive association with health outcomes. However, this association could be confounded by unmeasu...

This paper investigates the relationship between institutional trust in the health-care system, i.e. an institutional aspect of social capital, and self-rated health, and whether the strength of this association is affected by access to health-care services. The 2004 public health survey in the Scania region of Sweden is a cross-sectional study; a total of 27,963 respondents aged 18-80 years an...

The so-called Trust-Region Subproblem gets its name in the trust-region method in optimization and also plays a vital role in various other applications. Several numerical algorithms have been proposed in the literature for solving small-to-medium size dense problems as well as for large scale sparse problems. The Generalized Lanczos Trust-Region (GLTR) method proposed by [Gould, Lucidi, Roma a...