BACKGROUND All cultural groups in the world place paramount value on interpersonal trust. Existing research suggests that although accurate judgments of another's trustworthiness require extensive interactions with the person, we often make trustworthiness judgments based on facial cues on the first encounter. However, little is known about what facial cues are used for such judgments and what ...

Cop rust has been found to be crucial for consumer behaviour towards online shops. However, existing studies on the role of trust in electronic commerce are mainly based on ad hoc scales to measure trustworthiness, merely rely on self-reported consequences of trust such as intention to buy, and focus on low-risk products. I n a web-based study, 634 participants interacted with a provider of med...

Trust and trustworthiness are essential to an efficient economy and play crucial roles in social life. Previous evidence from behavioral experiments has revealed that the trustworthiness of individuals is closely related with their altruistic preference. It has been demonstrated that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is associated with decisions involving trustworthiness. Moreover, vmP...

Abstract Extant accounts of trust in science focus on reconciling scientific and public value judgments, but neglect the challenge learning audience values. I argue that for experts to be epistemically trustworthy, they should adopt a cooperative approach about values their audience. A approach, which expert non-expert inquirers iteratively refine better achieves important second-order epistemi...

In this paper, we address the problem of fusing untrustworthy reports provided from a crowd of observers, while simultaneously learning the trustworthiness of individuals. To achieve this, we construct a likelihood model of the users’s trustworthiness by scaling the uncertainty of its multiple estimates with trustworthiness parameters. We incorporate our trust model into a fusion method that me...

In the era of COVID-19, travel decisions are influenced by social norms, which is a deciding factor between one’s perception risk and their intention. Moreover, serious safety measures, such as increased aircraft cleaning, distancing during boarding process, use face masks critical factors that influence passengers’ trust in air travel. This study examines direct effects preventive measures nor...