Over the past decades, numerous twin studies have revealed moderate to high heritability estimates for individual differences in a wide range of human traits, including cognitive ability, psychiatric disorders, and personality traits. Even factors that are generally believed to be environmental in nature have been shown to be under genetic control, albeit modest. Is such heritability also prese...

the current research aims to identify and prioritize the factors affecting public trust in government agencies in tehran. for this purpose, 39 variables that affect public trust were extracted by reviewing the literature of the context, then, they were used for preparing the questionnaire. research methods are descriptive, exploratory, applied and fieldwork. validity and reliability of the ques...

in recent years, virtual communities have been significantly popular and almost all of them are targeted for business profitability. in our study, the profitability of these communities for businesses has been analyzed from a commercial perspective. the study considers virtual community as a business model which can have a great impact on consumer purchase decision process. with respect to refe...

this study aims to investigate the effect of good characters of managers on organizational trust in tamin ejtemaei in kerman based on the islamic hints. this research is descriptive-applicable in terms of objective. population was 400 managers of tamin ejtemaei organization in kerman province. a sample of 196 people was selected by cukran's formula. a self-administrated questionnaire was e...

Trust is a critical component in effective collaboration, decision-making and negotiation. The goal of effective team leaders should be to send signals and messages that increase trust. We attempt to determine if signals can vary perceptions of trustworthiness and if nonverbal behaviors, such as the voice, contain indicators of trust. In order to investigate the relationship between trust and v...

We proposed a model suggesting how national goals for socializing children moderate the contributions made by the individual’s level of in-group trust and out-group trust to his/her level of trust in most people, viz., non-specific trust. Consistent with our hypotheses, a two-level HLM analysis of representative data across 49 countries from the World Values Survey (2005-2007) indicates that th...

The level of trust given towards telecare by the family members of older people using the service is extremely important. Family trust may be an influential factor in deciding whether to use such services. This study focuses on older people's satisfaction with telecare and examines their family's trust in telecare services. Influences on intention to continue using telecare services are also ex...