This paper focuses mainly on social aspects concerning trust and network, especially in higher education institutions. Trust plays a crucial role as social capital and is an important factor of social order, especially in countries in transition. The hypothesis that low trust is one major problem of entrepreneurship will be examined. In low-trust environments, trust is abused as soon as it is p...

Economic exchange between strangers happens extremely frequently due to the growing number of internet transactions. In trust situations like online transactions, a trustor usually does not know whether she encounters a trustworthy trustee. However, the trustor might form beliefs about the trustee's trustworthiness by relying on third-party information. Different kinds of third-party informatio...

internet is integrated into nearly all aspects of activities including businesses. it is a medium that can be accessed anywhere. the advancement of internet has contributed to the development of electronic commerce and trust has been suggested in the literature to play an essential role in the development of e-commerce. lately, e-commerce has also taken placed in a new platform, social networki...

The underlying belief and knowledge models assumed by various kinds of authentication protocols have been studied for well over 10 years now. On the other hand, the related question of the generic trust assumptions, which underlie the settings where the protocols are run, has received less attention. Furthermore, the notion of trust, as it is typically defined, has more been based on the formal...

BACKGROUND This study tests how various kinds of trust impact attitudes toward euthanasia among the general public. The indication that trust might have an impact on euthanasia attitudes is based on the slippery slope argument, which asserts that allowing euthanasia might lead to abuses and involuntary deaths. Adopting this argument usually leads to less positive attitudes towards euthanasia. T...

In today’s connected world it is possible and indeed quite common to interact with unknown people, whose reliability is unknown. Trust Metrics are a technique for answering questions such as “Should I trust this person?”. However, most of the current research assumes that every user has a global quality score everyone agree on and the goal of the technique is just to predict this correct value....

the goal of the present paper has been investigating social trust and the factors affecting it among women in three villages of three different iranian provinces. the two research questions of the study are: 1. how is social trust perceived by rural women? 2. what factors affect rural women’s social trust? the data were collected by distributing a questionnaire among a sample of 300 women comin...