Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and … the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … study how the effect of social media on trust varies depending on the civility or incivility of online interaction. We find …

network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the … 'radius of trust': an endogenous network listing the potentially cooperative relationships between pairs of players in a … community. We identify two aspects of trust, which relate to the network structure in different ways. Where trust depends on the …

implement a binary trust game with hidden action in a lab-in-the-field experiment with residents of an informal housing area in … part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a … Cairo. Our results show that trust is higher among friends than among strangers and that higher trust among friends is …

experiment builds on two phases in sequence: a network formation game and a trust game. We find that in those sessions where the …We run a laboratory experiment were "friendship" networks are generated endogenously within an anonymous group. Our … trust game is played before the network formation game, the overall level of trust is not significantly different from the …

relative to weak links. During their introductory week, we let new university students play an experimental trust game, first …

derived hypotheses in a controlled laboratory environment. In the experiment, two trustees sequentially play a trust game with … themselves) with respect to trustworthiness. We ask whether two friends show similarly trustworthy behavior towards strangers …, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the …

The issue of trust-based personal data disclosure online remains of high importance both in social networking and … disclosure in online shopping. The paper analyses how trust and conspiracy beliefs impact willingness to disclose personal data … some similarities between the impacts of trust and conspiracy believes in case of social networking, but disclose their …

Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their … correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of … trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which subjects operate. Attitudinal indicators which are often used to …