A number of factors – from our eagerness to place trust in people to our overconfidence in our own intelligence – make us easy prey.
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Three trends suggest people in less developed nations – who are coming online in greater numbers – use and trust the internet very differently those in more developed economies.
Societies that are happier than others would be reflecting more confidence and trust in their institutions and economic systems.
Trust is the keystone of the entire Internet system: without it more connection and therefore more commerce. How to restore it?
The way Australian politics is conducted now - abrasive, shallow, personal - is a known turn-off for voters. So why don’t the politicans change?
A survey shows that most Puerto Ricans didn’t highly rate the official information coming out of the island. With the Institute of Statistics in trouble, the situation is likely not to improve.
When it comes to ongoing security co-operation, mutual trust is crucial – but that is currently lacking.
New research has uncovered a previously unknown weakness in smart city systems: devices that trust each other. That could lead to some pretty terrible traffic, among other problems.
Michigan officials have ended distribution of free bottled water in Flint, but many residents believe the city’s water crisis is not over and have lost all trust in government.
A public meeting of flat earthers is a product and sign of our times.
The UK’s black Caribbean community is traditionally more inclined towards Labour. They’re even less likely to switch now.
The technology behind blockchain remains a mystery to many, but the it shares many common features with the popular online encyclopedia with which most web users are very familiar.
Healthcare workers are losing trust in the system in South Africa.
An expert in trust assesses how it comes into play while finding a solution that avoids a hard border for Northern Ireland.
Young people are abandoning Facebook and calls to delete profiles are growing over the alleged exploitation of data for political campaigns.
Researchers spent 16 years at a high school and observed security tighten and then loosen up again. What they found is that tighter security had the opposite of the intended effect.
Users shouldn’t trust Facebook, but that doesn’t mean they should immediately abandon what has become a crucial platform for connectedness.
Their culture places a high value on something many Americans don’t.
South African investigative journalists and civil society played a crucial role in bringing a country in the clutches of patronage networks back from the brink.
A scholar of digital trust evaluates Facebook’s current efforts and proposes some improvements the company could make.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Adjunct professor, Charles Sturt University
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Senior lecturer, University of Canberra
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Director of the Center for Trust Studies, Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Arizona
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Professor of Political Communication; Director CAJ, The University of Melbourne
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Chair in Trust, Professor of Management, The University of Melbourne; Melbourne Business School
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Chair in Governance, University of Southampton
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Professor of Public Relations, Michigan State University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
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RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
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Associate Professor of Management, York University, Canada
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York Research Chair and Associate Professor, York University, Canada
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Professor in Psychology, Keele University