type="main" xml:id="rssc12018-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>The item count method is a way of asking sensitive survey questions which protects the anonymity of the respondents by randomization before the interview. It can be used to estimate the probability of sensitive behaviour and to model how it depends...</p>

Perspectives from organizational theory, social psychology sociology and economics are brought together in this volume to provide a broad coverage of trust, including the psychological and social antecedents of trust

We develop a survey instrument to measure self-control problems in a sample of highly educated adults. This measure relates in the manner that theory predicts to liquid wealth accumulation and personality measures. Yet while self-control problems are typically seen as resulting in...

How significant are individual differences in self-control? Do these differences impact wealth accumulation? From where do they derive? Our survey-based measure of self-control provides insights into all three questions: 1.There are individual differences in self-control not only of a...

I argue for the usefulness of a value-based approach to legal regulation. The value-based approach designs institutions in ways that promote the development of values such as legitimacy. Such a development of values encourages people to follow the rules because they believe they ought to, rather...