Risk is at the core of both trust and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs, investors, customers, employees all risk some form of loss with new ventures. Every party involved in a new deal must manage their vulnerability, their trust, with the enterprise and everyone involved in it. New ventures...

The study of religion and trust, especially within organizations, has largely been conducted in silos. However, given the complex implications of religion on decision-making, moral reasoning, and social identity, it is important to recognize the role that religion plays in trust within...

Healthcare settings are complex and high risk, making for ripe environments to study trust. This chapter is a broad introduction to exploring trust in healthcare settings, particularly teaching hospitals. It describes how data on trust in healthcare and clinical teaching can be gathered and the...

This chapter explores how to create robots that enhance user safety by promoting an appropriate amount of trust during an emergency evacuation. The results from our experiments demonstrate that people tend to overtrust robots and, during an emergency, will follow or wait by a broken robot....

Trust between state parties to nuclear nonproliferation agreements is difficult to generate. The context in which these negotiations occur differs greatly from social, market, or interpersonal interactions. Often the other party is an adversary, with a history of negative interactions and...

The current chapter discusses the factors that shape public opinion of autonomous security robots (ASRs). Using robots in security contexts, such as in police activities, is an area that has raised concerns among the public and is thus a fruitful domain to study in order to understand the...

Trust is and has been at the heart of sociological inquiry. Most contemporary trust research focuses either on generalized or on particularized trust. However, we note a significant lack of cross-pollination as well as a missing middle ground between the two perspectives. Having reviewed the...

Perceptions of trustworthiness and decisions to trust emerge from a set of interrelated neural/cognitive processes that are somewhat stable within and between individuals. We provide a literature review of cognitive and cognitive neuroscience research on future-oriented psychological mechanisms...

This chapter presents a different way of conceptualizing and visualizing trust dynamics by exploring how trust attractors influence trust relations at multiple analytical levels. Consistent with research on dynamical systems and conflict, we identify trust attractors as change-resistant attitude...

Autonomous systems are created to perform a task so that a person does not have to. However, people differ in their willingness to trust and rely on such technology. To begin to understand what determines a person’s decision to trust an autonomous system (e.g., a self-driving car), it is first...