At any given time, the stability of a community depends on the right balance of trust and distrust. Furthermore, we face information overload, increased uncertainty and risk taking as a prominent feature of modern living. As members of society, we cope with these complexities and uncertainties by relying trust, which is the basis of all social interactions. Although a small number of trust mode...

Volunteer organizations can potentially partner with mainstream professional services to provide better parenting support to immigrant parents. This qualitative study of cooperation between professional agencies and volunteer organizations known as migrant volunteer and community organizations (MVCOs) aims to understand the extent to which professionals and volunteers can transform frame diverg...

A tension exists between two well-established streams of literature on the performance of teams. One stream contends that teams with diverse backgrounds, social structures, knowledge, and experience function more effectively because they bring novel information to bear on problems that cannot be solved by groups of homogeneous individuals. In contrast, the literature on mutual knowledge contend...

in order to design and validate the social capital questionnaire for employees of physical education organization, the main research question was whether a social capital questionnaire designed by researchers had sufficient validity and reliability. the population of the research consisted of employees of the organization (n=700). 299 subjects were selected as the sample by systematic random sa...

We describe an approach to social action and social relationship among socially intelligent agents [1], based on mutual planning and mutual control of action. We describe social behaviors, and the creation and maintenance of social relationships, obtained with an implementation of a biologically inspired parallel and modular agent architecture. We define voluntary action and social situatedness...

Mutual gaze is a powerful cue for communicating social attention and intention. A plethora of studies have demonstrated the fundamental roles of mutual gaze in establishing communicative links between humans, and enabling non-verbal communication of social attention and intention. The amount of mutual gaze between two partners regulates human-human interaction and is a sign of social engagement...

Does Democracy Foster Trust? The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals’ attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data f...

 Modeling Mutual Influence Between Social Actions and Social Ties Xiaofeng Yu, Jun Qing Xie HP Laboratories HPL-2014-18 Social Actions and Social Ties; Mutual Influence In online social media, social action prediction and social tie discovery are two fundamental tasks for social network analysis. Traditionally, they were considered as separate tasks and solved independently. In this paper, we ...