Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and … study how the effect of social media on trust varies depending on the civility or incivility of online interaction. We find …

economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours … and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …

empirical assessment of how online networking affects two economically relevant aspects of social capital, i.e. trust and …. However, social trust decreases with online interactions. Several interpretations of these findings are discussed. …

identification and trust in the robot. In addition, the more participants felt it was safe to work with the robot, the more willing …

We analyze the classic problem of sustaining trust when cheating and leaving trading partners is easy, and outside … repeated interaction. Hierarchies provide incentives for loyalty and allow individuals to trust agents to extent that the … inefficient withholding of trust to support group norms, and are not robust to coalitional deviations. In communities whose …