Prior social science research has shown that tie strength is a useful indicator of context-dependent trust in many real-world relationships. Yet, it is often challenging to gauge trust in online environments. Given a multitude of variables that represent social relationships, we explore how to visualize interpersonal tie strength to empower people to make informed, context-dependent online trus...

Research on psychosocial correlates of depression and social anxiety often has not accounted for their comorbidity. Differentiating correlates of depression and social anxiety may inform the development of comorbidity models. Building on research linking both disorders to interpersonal dysfunction, this study examined interpersonal correlates of depressive symptoms and social anxiety in nonrefe...

Three studies contrasting Indian and American negotiators tested hypotheses derived from theory proposing why there are cultural differences in trust and how cultural differences in trust influence negotiation strategy. Study 1 (a survey) documented that Indian negotiators trust their counterparts less than American negotiators. Study 2 (a negotiation simulation) linked American and Indian nego...

Overview 5 6 Given the importance of trust in online environments, information systems research has recently embraced trust research (e.g., 7 Ba and Pavlou 2002; Gefen et al. 2003, Jarvenpaa et al. 1999; McKnight et al. 2002; Stewart 2003). However, despite the 8 enormous interest in the topic of trust by IS researchers (with 129 published papers listed in ABI/INFORM), most of this research 9 s...

Human beings exhibit substantial interpersonal trust-even with strangers. The neuroactive hormone oxytocin facilitates social recognition in animals, and we examine if oxytocin is related to trustworthiness between humans. This paper reports the results of an experiment to test this hypothesis, where trust and trustworthiness are measured using the sequential anonymous "trust game" with monetar...

today, the women from the half of the civil society population and from the perspective of security in the urban society, they are vulnerable social groups that their security is threatened in different ways. this study seeks to examine the factors affecting social security of women living in two neighborhoods in vanak and sarasiab. research theoretical model is composed (inspired by the views ...

This study provides insight into how social relationship factors influence on electronic Word-of-Mouth (EWOM) behaviors in social networking sites. By using the sample from Taiwan and Vietnam college students who spend more time on social networking sites, we investigate these determinants of EWOM behaviors such as social capital, trust and interpersonal influences, and compare the results betw...