It has been proposed that social disconnectedness at school age can stem from early unsatisfactory attachment experiences. This interpretation leads to the somewhat diffuse label “Attachment Disorder” (AD) however there exist few school-relevant interventions for the various forms of AD. A new perspective (King and Newnham, 2008) with more promising avenues for intervention has proposed that: a...

The Solar Trust Model provides a method by which the sender of a message can be authenticated, and the level of trust that can be placed in the sender of the message or the message itself can be computed. The model works even if there is no prior relationship between the sender and receiver of the message. The Solar Trust Model overcomes a variety of limitations inherent in the design of other ...

The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between social trust and economic governance and provides a possible explanation for their long-term trends and crosssectional variation. To mitigate the inherent moral hazard problem in a principal— agent situation, both intrinsic trustworthiness and extrinsic incentives are useful. The distribution of intrinsic trustworthiness among agents chara...

Two studies were conducted to examine the long-term impact of parental divorce on beliefs about the self and others. In Study 1, college-aged children of divorce and students from intact families did not differ on 8 basic assumptions or on measures of depression. Those whose parents are divorced, however, were less optimistic about the success of their own future marriages. Assumptions about th...

Deciding whether to trust an information sources on the Web has been recognized as one of the main problems in today’s Information Society. In particular, assessing the credibility of news is a major research challenge. Typically, criteria such as freshness, relevance and viewer profile have been used by news services to rank news. However, these services do not deal with credibility from a qua...

The amount of data available electronically to a multitude of users has been increasing dramatically over the last few years. The size and dynamics of the user community set requirements that cannot be easily solved by traditional access control solutions. A promising approach for supporting access control in open environments is trust management . This chapter provides an overview of the most ...

In multi-agent systems, stereotypical trust models are widely used to bootstrap a priori trust in case historical trust evidences are unavailable. These models can work well if and only if malicious agents share some common features (i.e., stereotypes) in their profiles and these features can be detected. However, this condition may not hold for all the adversarial scenarios. Smart attackers ca...

In this position paper we examine some of the aspects of trust models, deployment, use and ‘misuse,’ and present a manifesto for the application of computational trust in sociotechnical systems. Computational Trust formalizes the trust processes in humans in order to allow artificial systems to better make decisions or give better advice. This is because trust is flexible, readily understood, a...

This research explores how one group of users perceives trustworthiness and reliability, as a form of professional judgment, when viewing text based information that is shared and distributed publically. In particular, this research explores how trust works in the domain of film exhibition and curating. A group of film professionals were studied to explore how they navigate published informatio...

In Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing area trust issues have gained focus as a result of the decentralized nature of P2P systems where autonomous peers interact with each other without relying on any central authority. There is, thus, the need of a trust system to ensure a level of robustness against malicious nodes. Various reputation-based trust models have been proposed for P2P systems which use s...