and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote …

Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a … discusses the roots of this perspective, in theory of cognition and meaning, and illustrates its application in a summary of a … social-cognitive theory of the firm and an analysis of processes by which trust is built up and broken down. …

less clear how religious background influences economic attitudes and financial decision-making on the level of the … responsibility. Most of these factors matter for household financial decision-making, albeit to differing degrees. Using our religion …

This chapter reviews some key points in the analysis of trust, based on Nooteboom (2002)i.The following questions are … addressed.What can we have trust in?What is the relation between trust and control?What are the sources of trust? And what are … its limits?By what process is trust built up and broken down?What are the psychological mechanisms involved?The chapter …

.Simultaneously numerous advantages of joint venture relationships characterized by trust between partners have been identified.This paper … investigates the role of trust in knowledge transfer and assimilation, jointly leading to the learning outcome in an … interorganizational context.Propositions linking sources of trust to the processes of knowledge transfer and assimilation in joint …

We examine the effect of trust on financial investment and contracting decisions in a micro-economic environment where … trust is exogenous. Using hand-collected data on European venture capital, we show that the Eurobarometer measure of trust … partners further contributes to the effect of trust. Education and work experience reduce the effect of trust but do not …

Abstract: We implement a trust game in which the trustee can write a free-form pre-play message for the trustor. The …

better understanding of the puzzles and processes of trust, this chapter applies the perspective of 'embodied cognition', and …Trust is full of puzzle and paradox.Trust is both rational and emotional. Trust can go beyond calculative self …-interest, but has its limits.People may want to trust, while they may also feel threatened by it.If trust is not in place prior to a …