Modern trends in Peer-to-Peer systems lean towards self organized communities based on peer contribution. The inherent difficulty encountered in such systems is that selfish peers that are mutually distrustful of each other are expected to cooperate in order to enjoy the benefit of consuming the resources shared through the p2p system. Furthermore, self organized p2p communities depend on free ...

Significant work has been initiated on trust in ecommerce settings, but little research has addressed distrust. Because of its connection to the insecurities that are found in risky situations, disposition to distrust is particularly suited to addressing issues of high risk, while disposition to trust is better suited for low risk issues. High risk issues include: a) perceptions that the Web is...

Trust and distrust networks are usually extremely sparse and the vast majority of the existing algorithms for trust/distrust prediction suffer from the data sparsity problem. In this paper, following the research from psychology and sociology, we envision that users’ emotions such as happiness and anger are strong indicators of trust/distrust relations. Meanwhile the popularity of social media ...

Trust and distrust are both considered to be crucial in online truster–trustee relationships. Although some research has proposed that trust and distrust are distinct, other research continues to hold that they are merely opposite ends of the same continuum. Given this debate, it is important to consider how distrust is distinguished from trust. To that end, this paper extends the nomological n...

The aim of this study is developing of a questionnaire that observes aggression in group psychoanalytic psychotherapy and examines its factor structure. The questionnaire comprised of 160 statements in five-point Likert-type scale was developed through analysis of the content of aggressive communication among patients during group sessions. The questionnaire was applied on 253 patients that att...

We investigate levels of generalized distrust of men among low-income African American, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and non-Hispanic white women in a three-city survey. The results reveal substantial variation. We find Hispanics' overall levels of distrust to be higher than levels for either African Americans or whites. Among Hispanics, however, Dominicans are the most distrusting group f...

Trust prediction is essential to enhancing reliability and reducing risk from the unreliable node, especially for online applications in open network environments. An fact trust measure relation of both interacting entities accurately. However, most existing methods infer between usually rely on modeling similarity nodes a graph ignore semantic influence negative links (e.g., distrust relation)...

Public administrations have introduced eGovernment systems for many years. However, citizens’ willingness to use these applications is still rather small. As proved by surveys, one major reason for this lacking acceptance is security concerns. In this paper, we investigate the role of mass media in this process of creating mistrust towards eGovernment. In doing so, we analyse three different ne...