The proliferation of the software as a service (SaaS) model challenges our understanding of trust formation in the external software acquisition. In the SaaS model vital software applications are often sourced over the internet with very limited personal interaction between representatives of user and provider. The present research seeks to explore how the subscribers of software services devel...

Increasing rates of job displacement (i.e. involuntary job loss from redundancy, downsizing, restructuring) have been suggested to be a key driver of declining macro-levels of generalised trust. This article undertakes the first test of how job displacement affects individuals' tendencies to (dis)trust over the adult lifecourse, using two-waves of the Great Britain National Child Development St...

Trust is an important and frequently studied concept in personal interactions and business ventures. As such, it has been examined by multitude of scientists in diverse disciplines of study. Over the past years, proposals have been made to model trust relations computationally, either to assist users or for modeling purposes in multi-agent systems. These models rely implicitly on the social net...

OBJECTIVE Little empirical evidence exists to support either side of the ongoing debate over whether legalising physician aid in dying would undermine patient trust. DESIGN A random national sample of 1117 US adults were asked about their level of agreement with a statement that they would trust their doctor less if "euthanasia were legal [and] doctors were allowed to help patients die". RE...

Recent studies have shown that trusting attitudes and behavior are biologically influenced. Focusing on the classic trust game, it has been demonstrated that oxytocin increases trust and that humans are endowed with genetic variation that influences their behavior in the game. Moreover, several studies have shown that a large share of the variation in survey responses to trust items is accounte...

A PKI can be described as a set of technologies, procedures and policies for propagating trust from where it initially exists to where it is needed for authentication in online environments. How the trust propagation takes place under a specific PKI depends on the PKI’s syntactic trust structure which is commonly known as a trust model. However, trust is primarily a semantic concept that can no...

Trust is playing an important role in communications and transactions. Based on different reasons of trust, different trusted domains, possibly disjoint, are formed in mobile communications, preventing complete systems from working properly. What is lacked therein is a bridge that can link domains, across trust gaps to establish a complete trusted mobile communication system. In this paper, the...

One can distinguish between two kinds of trust that may be placed in a given entity e (a person or a thing), which we call: familiarity-based trust and regularity-based trust. A familiarity-based trust in e is a trust based on personal familiarity with e, or on testimonial by somebody who is familiar with e, directly or indirectly, or even on some measure of the general reputation of e. A regul...

Being able to say with absolute certainty that another party can be trusted to handle personal information with today’s technology is probably unrealistic. In this paper we explain an approach to establishing trust based on the status of a remote platform and an anticipated willingness of the other party to comply with prior negotiated obligations. Ongoing monitoring and notification, and the a...

Social science models are increasingly needed as a framework for explaining and predicting how members of the public respond to the natural environment and their communities. The theory of reasoned action is widely used in human dimensions research on natural resource problems and work is ongoing to increase the predictive power of models based on this theory. This study examined beliefs, attit...