Building online trust and understanding its relationship to online consumer behavior are important topics for e-commerce designers and human-computer interaction researchers. In this paper, the relationships between multidimensions of online trust (integrity, benevolence, and ability) and purchase intention are tested and discussed. Furthermore, the uncertainty avoidance cultural orientation, s...

Utterances of two adults males were analyzed and synthesized by a fast Fourier Transforms method. Each of the two voices was synthesized in each of the twenty-seven combinations of three levels each of rate, mean FO, and variance of FO (a total of fifty-four "voices" generated from two). The effects of the rate, mean FO, and variance of FO manipulations, the interactive effects of rate and vari...

Previous studies have revealed the influence of cultural values on volunteering; however, few focused Confucian value benevolence. This study examined relationship between benevolence and volunteering, as well mediating role volunteer motives. A total 473 Chinese college students completed questionnaires to assess benevolence, including familism, unity, harmony (UH), six functional motives volu...

Norway 2 Preliminary. Please do not quote. Acknowledgement: We would like to thank participants at the WZB workshop " Advances in Auction Theory " for helpful discussions. All errors are our own. Abstract We consider a pie-splitting game involving three committee members. In response to the large literature on sequential procedures in this type of game, we propose an institution that is inspire...

This study aims at analysing the effect of vendor’s ability, benevolence, and integrity toward e-Commerce customers’ trust. This study makes use of Indonesian e-Commerce users as research samples while using Likert scale questionnaire for data collection. Furthermore, the questionnaires are sent to as many as 198 respondents through the mailing list. For data analysis method this research uses ...

It is known that perceived trust of vendor can positively affect customers’ acceptance of a certain product or service. Based on Mayer’s three-dimensional trust model and traditional trust theory, the factors affecting different dimension of customer initial trust in the mobile payment service providers were tested through an empirical study, including service providers’ reputation, perceived s...

Trust plays an important role in facilitating knowledge sharing, but few studies have systematically investigated trust development in online communities, a popular tool for knowledge sharing. This paper presents one such exploratory study that investigated how knowledge seekers form trust toward knowledge contributors in electronic networks of practice. Knowledge seekers’ perceptions of knowle...