The insights of social psychology are not thoroughly integrated into international relations theory, yet social psychology has much to offer. Social psychology provides a conceptualization of a number of varieties of trust – moralistic, strategic, and generalized – and their opposites that implicitly drive the logic of major works of international relations. It also reveals the empirical presen...

We introduce the notion of a network of trust and distrust relations between individuals and take an argumentation approach to the assessment of whether one individual should trust another. . . . good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers” Plato Early Dialogues Laches

Emotion and trust are two important concerns for the elaboration of interaction systems that would be closer and more attractive to their users, in particular by endowing machines with the ability to predict, understand, and process emotions and trust. This paper attempts to construct a common logical framework for the representation of emotion and trust. This logical framework combines a logic...

Emotion and trust are two important concerns for the elaboration of interaction systems that would be closer and more attractive to their users, in particular by endowing machines with the ability to predict, understand, and process emotions and trust. This paper attempts to construct a common logical framework for the representation of emotion and trust. This logical framework combines a logic...

How mechanisms and issues of “organizational trust” develop and are perpetuated in the professional corps of naval ship design bureaus of France, Great Britain, and the United States provides insight for management theorists studying this developing area. This article focuses on the current and historical roles of these professional corps, and shows how the differences in societal trust in gove...

Recognizing that trust states are mental states, this paper presents a formal analysis of the dynamics of trust in terms of the functional roles and representation relations for trust states. This formal analysis is done both in a logical framework and in a mathematical framework based on integral and differential equations. Furthermore, the paper presents formal specifications of a number of r...

Much current work in the social sciences seeks to understand the effects of trust and social capital on economic and political outcomes. However, the sources of trust remain unclear. In this article, the authors articulate a basic theory of the relationship between institutions and trust. The authors apply this theory to industrial districts, geographically concentrated areas of small firm prod...

Detecting malicious peers is a challenging task in peer-to-peer networks due to their decentralized structure and lack of central authority. Trust models can help identify malicious peers by maintaining information about peer relations and interactions. Keeping information about trust relations helps to reduce risks when providing or using services. This paper introduces two consistency concept...