In order to learn about the world, young children rely on information provided by social partners. Past research has shown children consider a variety of factors when learning from others, including consensus. Corriveau, Fusaro, and Harris (2009) found that in an object labeling task, children trust responses that receive majority support, and they concluded that children prefer members of a ma...

This paper describes the first author's attempt to collect data in a homeless shelter without attending to her role in the social class hierarchy of the organization. The author's egalitarian approach towards the homeless clients, and her lack of involvement in "staff-only" activities, transgress the social class norms within the organizational structure. While the author is successful in gaini...

The emerging work on understanding open source software has strongly argued for the importance of understanding what leads to effectiveness in OSS development, has frequently pointed to ideology and communication as probable factors in effectiveness, and has presented conflicting opinions about the role of trust in effectiveness. For all the discussion of these issues, there has been no compreh...

this article identifies the factors which create and maintain the long term relationship between industrial crane suppliers and their buyers. a random sample of 79 respondents of buying companies was tested by structural equation models with lisrel and pls. findings revealed that latent variables like satisfaction, trust, commitment and intention to continue relationship had goodness of fit. th...

Social capital includes collective features such as social trust, norms, and networks. This paper examines social capital-related variables against demographic, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of 87,134 adult distance-learning students from Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University.We have found economic stress to be higher in non-married groups, lower income groups, and those residin...

This paper proposes and tests a model using two dimensions of interactivity (machine and person) to predict consumers' intentions to purchase online. Analysis of the results of an online survey of 1,744 respondents revealed that machine interactivity is positively associated with online purchase intentions through its influence on physical telepresence, attitudes, perceived behavioral control a...

Objective Social business is a sub-category of electronic business that seeks social, innovative and cooperative approaches within online markets and also uses social media to attract social partnership and cooperation of such network users to support online purchasing and services. Trust is considered as an effective factor leading to successful social business. Because of the growing populari...

social institutions have not changed equally, completely and simultaneously under the impact of modernization process. different levels of the family construction have been formed disharmoniously with social changes. that is why we are witnessing incompatible coactions among a some parts of traditional family norms on one side, and the values arisen from modernization. so that in some cases thi...

Trust is essential for a secure and flourishing social life, but many economic and philosophical approaches argue that rational people should never extend it, in particular to strangers they will never encounter again. Emerging data on the trust game, a laboratory economic exchange, suggests that people trust strangers excessively (i.e., far more than their tolerance for risk and cynical views ...