Trust of information has always been a critical issue in large distributed environments. With the rapid and recent development of online communities and social networks, it has been evident that the Web will rely more and more on user-edited information. As a consequence trust in the correctness of data is falling dramatically and no general solution has been proposed in order to consider that ...

BACKGROUND An online cross-sectional survey examined the relationships between the demographic characteristics, personal values, trust in sources of nutrition information and the use of convenience food outlets among middle-class household food providers in the Asia-Pacific region. METHODS The survey was administered to 3945 household food providers in Melbourne, Singapore, Shanghai, Vietnam ...

There is a general consensus among contemporary social scientists that social trust is important, as the small flood of recent publications on the topic shows. 1 The interest in trust covers, unusually in the increasingly ABSTRACT: This article identifies six main theories of the determinants of social trust, and tests them against survey data from seven societies, 1999– 2001. Three of the six ...

In recent years, collaborative filtering (CF) methods are important and widely accepted techniques are available for recommender systems. One of these techniques is user based that produces useful recommendations based on the similarity by the ratings of likeminded users. However, these systems suffer from several inherent shortcomings such as data sparsity and cold start problems. With the dev...

Online social networks (OSNs) have gained enormous popularity in recent years. Hundreds of millions of social network users reveal great amounts of personal information in the Web 2.0 environment that is largely devoid of security standards and practices. The central question in this article is why so many social network users are being so trusting. The focus is on theory-building on trust as a...

Correspondence Filippo Lanubile, Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari, Via Orabona, 4 – Dip. Informatica, 70125 Bari, Italy. Email: [email protected] Trust is a factor that dramatically contributes to the success or failure of distributed software teams. We present a research model showing that social communication between distant developers enables the affective appraisal of...

Using data from the nationally representative China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we describe Chinese adults' attitudes towards three specific aspects of social environments: local government performance, severity of major social issues, and social trust. We further explore how county level contextual factors and personal experiences relate to subjective social environments, while controlling fo...

Although it is well known that sleep loss results in poor judgement and decisions, little is known about the influence of social context in these processes. Sixteen healthy young adults underwent three games involving bargaining ('Ultimatum' and 'Dictator') and trust, following total sleep deprivation (TSD) and during rested wakefulness (RW), in a repeated-measures, counterbalanced design. To c...

BACKGROUND This paper presents results from a public engagement effort in Nebraska, USA, which measured public opinions about governmental involvement in encouraging the use of electronic health records (EHRs). OBJECTIVE We examine the role of trust in government in contributing to public support for government involvement in the development of EHR technologies. We hypothesize that trust in g...

This paper presents the theoretical framework for a project in which we will design, develop and test a personal identity profile that can contribute to an improved mediated collaboration environment for virtual project teams. The profile aims to foster interpersonal trust by enabling better and quicker estimations on trustworthiness. We here describe the mental model for trustworthiness estima...