Despite its widespread practice among primates writ large, social scientists have given mutual grooming among humans little attention. This research provides an important first step in describing mutual grooming among humans. A scale was developed to measure self-reported giving and receiving of grooming. In Study 1, 184 female and 94 male participants first indicated their closest emotional re...

Technical Report TR 2006-10 Abstract— Most of the current trust models in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are identity based, which means that in order for one peer to trust another, it needs to know the other peer’s identity. Hence, there exists an inherent tradeoff between trust and anonymity. To the best of our knowledge, there is currently no P2P protocol that provides complete mutual anonymity ...

s the purpose of this study was to identify indicators of social capital and pursue their correlation to communicational skill of mangers. this descriptive-correlation study has an applied objective. the population is composed of all employees (243 individuals) of nonprofit organizations in noor city. the total number of 85 individuals was selected in random sampling as the sample. in this stud...

Short Report " Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police, " Albert Einstein (1950) once said. Indeed, interpersonal trust is an essential element of social life in general and an important determinant of cooperative behavior in particular (Pruitt & Kimmel, 1977; Yamagishi, 1986). Afte...

Peer-to-peer complementary currencies can be powerful tools for promoting collaborations and building relationships on the Internet. i-WAT[13] is a proposed such currency based on the WAT System[18], a polycentric complementary currency using WAT tickets as its medium of exchange. Participants spontaneously issue and circulate the tickets as needed, whose values are backed up by chains of trust...