It has been consistently argued in prior research that mutual trust is essential for maintaining inter-organizational relationship quality and performance. The mirror side of trust – distrust – has received only scant attention, however. This empirical and qualitative study focuses on the roles of and relationships between trust and distrust in inter-organizational relationships. The results re...

This paper presents the results of a study exploring relationships of trust and distrust between the offender, the victims, regulators and the wider financial system in a particular case of white-collar crime. Individuals whose pension fund assets were defrauded by Robert Maxwell were interviewed in order to examine the consequences of financial crime and mismanagement upon the construction of ...

Trust and distrust are two increasingly important metrics in social networks. Since many of these networks are very large, it is only natural that not all users know each other. To this aim, propagation and aggregation operators are often used to estimate (dis)trust relations for users that are not directly connected through the network. In this paper, we introduce bilattice-based aggregation a...

We propose three alternative belief change operators to be used in a goal generation and adoption framework. The originality of these operators is that the trustworthiness of a source depends not only on the degree of trust but also on an independent degree of distrust. Explicitly taking distrust into account allows us to mark a clear difference between the distinct notions of negative trust an...

Aim: The study aimed to examine the relationship between individuals' distrust of health care system and their literacy levels how demographic characteristics affect level distrust.
 Materials Methods: research was conducted with 450 people over 18 living in Selcuklu, Meram, Karatay districts central Konya province. A 32-question survey consisting questions, Health Literacy Scale (HLS), Ca...

We explored the experiences of 12 women who mothered their children while they encountered challenges stemming from the legacy of childhood violence experiences. We examined the participants' narratives through critical, feminist, and symbolic interaction lenses to locate the forces and conditions facilitating and constraining women's mothering choices and decisions. Women's stories revealed th...

China’s relations with the West deteriorated dramatically following the Tibet and Olympic torch relay controversies in the spring of 2008. Because of its focus on the balance of material power, realist International Relations theory can do little to help us understand such developments. Instead, it is the political psychology of international relations that provides the most leverage on the rol...