The main purpose of this study is to examine the influence of cultural capital on social trust. One of the main dimensions of social capital which plays an important role in making relationships among individuals is social trust. It seems that cultural capital has an important role in explanation of social trust. Therefore, this study tried to show the level of cultural capital of social trust ...

this study adopted a survey research strategy to examine the impact of servant leadership and its dimensions on team effectiveness and trust in teams. the servant leadership, a new model of leadership, in recent years has been an area of interest to researchers and administrative staff. furthermore, institutions of higher education in the third millennium, need to maintain and increase the reli...

the purpose of performing this research was studying relationship of religious orientation and interpersonal trust with educational progress of students. the research was descriptive correlation one.statistical population included all highschool students of birjand city in educational year 93-94 ,which was based on morgan table and random cluster method ,355 samples was chosen and studied. to g...

TRUSTING IT ARTIFACTS: HOW TRUST AFFECTS OUR USE OF TECHNOLOGY

The meaning assigned to the word ‘trust’ is diverse. We present a formalism that allows various interpretations of trust. To this end, we introduce terms that specify the observations of agents, called connections. Then we apply epistemic semantics to reason about the knowledge of agents. We allow specifications of interpretations of trust in terms of facts, and analyze whether agents know the ...

Systems designed with measurement and attestation in mind are often layered, with the lower layers measuring the layers above them. Attestations of such systems, which we call layered attestations, must bundle together the results of a diverse set of application-specific measurements of various parts of the system. Some methods of layered attestation are more trustworthy than others, so it is i...

We study the effects of reputation and competition in a stylized market for experience goods. If interaction is anonymous, such markets perform poorly: sellers are not trustworthy, and buyers do not trust sellers. If sellers are identifiable and can, hence, build a reputation, efficiency quadruples but is still at only a third of the first best. Adding more information by granting buyers access...

political trust addresses the relation between people and state. researches say political trust has had a declining trend in iran since the victory of the revolution. religion is among the factors which affect political trust, and has been emphasized in the theories of the classical and contemporary sociologists and social capital theorists. this fact is more considerable in iran where a religi...