We present work that has been conducted in a sociological and psychological context. Our aim is to establish a mechanism that enables agents to cope with environments that contain mixtures of selfish and cooperative entities, where the mixture and the behaviour of these entities is previously unknown to all agents. We achieve this by enabling agents to evaluate trust in others, based upon the o...

We investigated the influence of reflections on self/others’ trust within group-based problem solving. We assessed the role of trust dynamics on perspective-taking activities within conflictive groups, extending the experimental framework used by Hayashi (2012) and including conversational agents for controlling participants’ interactions related to trust dynamics and perspective taking behavio...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate the effect of trust on work stress. Trust can be classified into three dimensions; social trust, institutional trust, and trust in others. The relationship between work stress and trust is regarded as having three components. First, trust has an influence on work stressors as an antecedent variable; secondly, trust modifies the effect of the va...

Anxiety is one of the most controversial issues in mental disorders that its prevalence is increasing in today's society. Preclinical anxiety that is causing some anxiety disorders in adults can help us in the prevention of mental disorders. In this paper an attempt has been made to have an analytical review of attachment anxiety and its significance in childhood and adulthood. Attachment patte...

background: one of the problems at the present age is anxiety, feelings of hopelessness and nihilism among humans that would cause many problems in life so that stress has called new civilization diseases. this issue would be doubled importance of addressing to this subject and find a way for the treatment and prevention of mental health risk. methods: this study was conducted with library meth...

Despite relevance for military operations, little work has examined trust in military research and theory. This work first reviews the literature on the development of interpersonal trust, where two distinct forms of trust are considered. Person-based trust develops over time, and is based on direct experience with another person [Rempel, Holmes, and Zanna, 1985]. Category-based trust emerges i...

The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an opportunity to appropriate these gains or be trustworthy by sharing them. Players are strangers because they do not know the identity of others and they ...