Three forms of trust: topic-focused trust, general trust, and personal trust are distinguished. Personal trust is argued to be the most fundamental form of trust, deeply connected with the construction of one’s self. Information technology has posed new problems for us in assessing and developing appropriate forms of the trust that is central to our personhood.

In a recent paper, Dennis, El{Alem, and Maciel proved global convergence to a stationary point for a general trust{region{based algorithm for equality{constrained optimization. This general algorithm is based on appropriate choices of trust{region subproblems and seems particularly suitable for large problems. This paper shows global convergence to a point satisfying the second{order necessary ...

Early experiences of violation perpetrated by close others, or betrayal traumas, may interfere with developing social capacities, including the ability to make healthy decisions about whom to trust. Betrayal trauma theory posits that survivors of trauma are at increased risk of making inaccurate trust decisions in interpersonal contexts, thus interfering with intimacy and elevating risk for rev...

In this paper we present a logical model of trust in which trust is conceived as an expectation of the truster about some properties of the trustee. A general typology of trust is presented. We distinguish trust in the trustee’s action from trust in the trustee’s disposition (motivational or normative disposition); positive trust from negative trust. A part of the paper is devoted to the formal...

Trust is an important tool in human life, as it enables people to cope with the uncertainty caused by the free will of others. Uncertainty and uncontrollability are also issues in computer-assisted collaboration and electronic commerce in particular. A computational model of trust and its implementation can alleviate this problem. This survey is directed to an audience wishing to familiarize th...

All human co-operation is based on trust, meaning that we choose co-operation partners and make commitment decisions based on how much we trust the other party. Digital certificates and public-key infrastructures represent an attempt to mimic real-world human assessment of identity and trustworthiness in an automated and mechanical fashion, but present implementations are based on a very limite...

OBJECTIVE Aspects of the patient-physician relationship, such as trust, influence a variety of health behaviors, including adherence to treatment regimens and the use of preventive health services. While several demographic and socioeconomic factors have been found to predict levels of trust in physicians, little is known about the influence of religious beliefs and behaviors. METHODS The rel...

Trust in physicians has declined, and surveys of public opinion show a poor level of public trust in physicians. Commodification of health care has been speculated as a plausible driving force. We used cross-national data of 23 countries from the International Social Survey Programme 2011 to quantify health care commodification and study its role in the trust that patients generally place in ph...

Trust is a main success factor for automated recommendation agents on e-commerce sites. Various aspects can contribute to the development of trust toward such an agent, including perceptions about the usefulness of the recommendations, the transparency of the recommendation process, and the general quality of the website. These factors have been analyzed in isolation in the literature though. W...