Abstract What is trust to a mining company? This article interrogates the effects of conceptualising as essential infrastructure for large-scale extractive operations. Although sentiments like are typically imagined fall outside firm's purview, companies actively blur distinctions between economic-material and social-emotional realms when they draw on intimate social forms kin networks communal...

This paper defines a concept of trust incident accounts as verbal reports of empirical episodes in which a trustor has reached a state of positive or negative expectations of a trustee’s behavior under associated risks. Such expectations are equated to trust and distrust, correspondingly, and present a sharp contrast with hypocritical use of trust rhetoric with ulterior motives such as an attem...

The objective of this research is to identify the role of trust and distrust in online shopping mall business. To differentiate the status of distrust from low trust, cognitive-affective personality system theory was applied, through which five types of psychological units were proposed. The research model proposed seven hypotheses showing the processes through which the features of an online s...

Recently, emotions play a more and more important role in intelligent behavior researching in Artificial Intelligent area, specially in intelligent interaction systems. Purposes of these researches are to construct natural interactions between human and machine as those among humans by assigning computers human-like abilities of observation, interpretation (understanding, representation, reason...

Preschool-age children's reasoning about the reliability of deceptive sources was investigated. Ninety 3- to 5-year-olds watched several trials in which an informant gave advice about the location of a hidden sticker. Informants were either helpers who were happy to give correct advice, or trickers who were happy to give incorrect advice. Three-year-olds tended to accept all advice from both he...

Reflection on the Barrow Alcohol Study is important, given the continuing problems associated with behavioral health among Alaska Natives and the desire among leaders of Native and non-Native communities in Alaska to ameliorate the situation (Hensley, 1987; GICCY, 1988; Mohatt, McDiramid & Montoya, 1988; Booker, 1988). The assumptions are that research can provide valuable insights into etiolog...