This paper presents a simple model of trust and autonomy and explores the role of power as social influence on trust and autonomy. We present a quantitative measure we term power homogeneity that quantifies profiles of power assignment in a group. Experimental results illustrate changes in trust and autonomy with groups at different power homogeneity. We also show that our model of autonomy pre...

In many computing systems, information is produced and processed by many people. Knowing how much a user trusts a source can be very useful for aggregating, filtering, and ordering of information. Furthermore, if trust is used to support decision making, it is important to have an accurate estimate of trust when it is not directly available, as well as a measure of confidence in that estimate. ...

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European countries with ancestry from across the world are studied. Individuals are examined within country of residence using variation in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks up institutional factors in ...

Peer-to-peer networks have become increasingly popular in the recent years. In an open peer-to-peer network peers often have to interact with unknown peers and need to manage the risk in their communications. It is very important for peers to select a trustworthy peer to accomplish a task. Peers must be able to determine the trustworthiness of other peers to increasing uncertainty and risk. Thu...

Trust is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Organizational trust is an important part of professional relationships between co-workers, between managers and employees, or between employees and managers. Trust can be either interpersonal or institutional in nature. To measure, understand, and explain trust in an organizational context, it is important to identify different dimensions of ...

The certainty trust relationship of network node behavior has been presented based on graph theory, and a measurement method of trusted-degree is proposed. Because of the uncertainty of trust relationship, this paper has put forward the random trusted-order and firstly introduces the construction of trust relations space (TRS) based on trusted order. Based on all those above, the paper describe...

Every time a user uses the Internet, a wealth of personal information is revealed, either voluntarily or involuntarily. This often causes privacy breaches, specially if the information is misused. Ideally, a user would like to make a reasoned decision about who to release her information to and what to release. For this purpose, we propose using the level of trust that a user has on the recipie...

Online studies are increasingly utilized in applied research. However, lack of external diagnostic verification in many of these investigations is seen as a threat to the reliability of the data. The present study examined the robustness of internet studies on psychosis against simulation. We compared the psychometric properties of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences scale (CAPE), a...

Developing and sustaining partnerships for promoting health has been identified as an important strategy for addressing the health challenges that face society. Trust is one of the most important factors that help partnerships function effectively. In health promotion partnerships, trust is an under-researched and poorly understood phenomenon. This study was designed to identify how trust is co...

Trust is an essential construct of actor bonds in the IMP framework (Håkansson and Snehota 1995), and is also known to be important for inter-firm relationships (Håkansson and Snehota 1995; Morgan and Hunt 1994). Trust has been conceptualised as a multi-dimensional construct in previous business-tobusiness research, with the two dominant theoretical dimensions of benevolence or goodwill on the ...