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Discussions of social cohesion always place particular import in the “trust” of the citizenry in state institutions, as well as the “trust” between different demographic groups. Appeals to these people for trust ignores the experiences of those potentially threatened by racism—corporally through rightwing violence, verbally through representation in ...
Utlu, Deniz, Cho-Polizzi, Jon
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Trust Games Measure Trust [PDF]
The relationship between trust and risk is a topic of enduring interest. Although there are substantial differences between the ideas the terms express, many researchers from different disciplines have pointed out that these two concepts become very closely related in personal exchange contexts.
Houser, Daniel+2 more
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To trust, or not to trust: Cognitive reflection in trust games [PDF]
We present results from two studies that show a positive relation between cognitive reflection and trusting behavior, but no significant relation with trustworthy behavior. Our finding holds regardless of individual distributional social preferences and risk aversion.
Brice Corgnet+4 more
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When we take a taxi we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract to take the shortest possible path. Is the behaviour of the driver affected by beliefs about our cheating notions? We address this question in the context of a trust game.
Butler, Jeff+2 more
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Because of its relation to economic growth, there is a policy interest in measuring social capital and average trust as its currently most important proxy.In this paper we measure societal trust and trustworthiness by combining the virtues of laboratory experiments and survey data and present results from an economic experiment conducted using a ...
Bellemare, C., Kroger, S.
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Trusting the State, Trusting Each Other? The Effect of Institutional Trust on Social Trust [PDF]
Trust in state institutions is a prominent explanation of social trust. However, previous—mainly cross-sectional—analyses provide limited causal evidence regarding the relationship between institutional trust and social trust and it is thus essentially unknown whether an observed relationship reflects reverse causality (social trust forming ...
Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar+1 more
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Reflections on trusting trust [PDF]
To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.
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To Trust or Not to Trust [PDF]
In today’s rapidly developing Internet, the web sites and services end users see are more and more composed of multiple services, originating from many different providers in a dynamic way. This means that it can be difficult for the user to single out individual web services or service providers and consequently judge them regarding how much they ...
Sandra Troesterer+3 more
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The Productivity of Trust [PDF]
This paper tests whether social trust affects total factor productivity (TFP). Using both development and growth accounting, we find strong evidence of a causal positive effect of social trust on the level and growth of TFP. We moreover observe that the effect of social trust on TFP runs through economic-judicial institutions, but not through political
Bjørnskov, Christian+1 more
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Trust and Trusted Computing Platforms [PDF]
Hardware-based trusted computing platforms are intended to overcome many of the problems of trust that are prominent in computing systems. In this paper, a result of the Software Engineering Institute's Independent Research and Development Project "Trusted Computing in Extreme Adversarial Environments: Using Trusted Hardware as a Foundation for Cyber ...
Jonathan M. McCune+2 more
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