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Showing 1 to 20 of 297 for “"Distrust"”.
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Trust and Distrust Scale Development: Operationalization and Instrument Validation
<p>Trust and distrust have been studied at great length by researchers in the field of information systems and various other fields over the past few decades without reaching consensus on conceptualization and measurement. The goal of this study was to determine if individual trust and distrust are …
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EXPLORATORY STUDY ON TRUST, DISTRUST, AND CREDIBILITY IN MACHINE JOURNALISM
… journalist on the perceptions of credibility and distrust for news articles on controversial topics was explored. To further extend the well- established theories of credibility in journalism, this study introduced the concept of distrust as a construct that is distinct from credibility or trust. …
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Are Fact-checks Effective Even for Those Who Distrust Fact-checkers?
… average. However, there is concern about growing distrust of fact-checkers, particularly among those on the political right. In Chapter II we investigate whether trust in fact-checkers moderates the efficacy of warning labels. Are warning labels from fact- checkers effective even for those who say …
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State of distrust: interpreting 1970s Italy through the seriality of news media and the poliziottesco.
This thesis explores the relationship between films, news media, and the perception of social reality. It analyses 1970s Italian police thrillers, the so-called poliziottesco, and argues that these films can be considered historical documents. Building on on-going debates on the poliziottesco …
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Effects of healthcare system distrust on cognition in African American older adults with type two diabetes mellitus
Healthcare system distrust has been linked to poorer Type two diabetes management (T2DM) management, but its impact on cognitive functioning in individuals with T2DM has not been assessed. This study aimed to analyze how healthcare system distrust might affect cognitive functioning in African …
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The distinct impacts of trustworthiness traits, trust, and distrust on public service coproduction: empirical evidence from citizen perspective in urban China
… while clearly distinguishing trust from distrust at both conceptual and operational levels. It examines whether these constructs differentially affect citizens’ coproduction willingness and behaviour, testing both direct effects and indirect effects of trustworthiness traits/perceived …
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Towards a moderated-trust governance theory : explaining the dimensional structure of trust and distrust between a board of directors and a CEO
… explicit exploration of trust and its complement—distrust—and explains the complexity of the trust relationship between governance actors such as chief executive officers, board chairmen, and board directors. This study seeks to demonstrate that distrust, as characterised within agency theory, and …
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NEPA implementation and trust: linking stakeholder trust to substantive effectiveness in U.S. Forest Service fuels reduction projects
… I found that interpersonal trust, interpersonal distrust, and institutional distrust play prominent but varied roles within the NEPA process. First, interpersonal trust mediates the effect of institutional distrust on the substantive effectiveness of the NEPA process. Second, higher levels of …
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Barriers to Trust Between Police and Disadvantaged Communities: A Comparative Analysis of Officers' and Residents' Perspectives in San Antonio, Texas
… findings indicate that officers perceive public distrust as driven largely by negative media portrayals, lack of public understanding of police work, and community reluctance to cooperate, whereas residents attribute distrust to personal and historical experiences, inconsistent police presence, a …
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Do you believe in atheists? Trust and anti-atheist prejudice
… may dislike atheists primarily because of moral distrust towards them. This suggests a distinct origin for anti-atheist prejudice that sets it apart from ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice. We explored this broad hypothesis in a series of three experiments. First, we find that on an implicit …
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Ego-tribalism in religion, politics, and media : a changing landscape calls for a new theory of trust.
… consumption of politically biased media predict distrust of the COVID-19 vaccine. Consumption of conservative media is associated with distrust in the vaccine. Believing media exaggerate the dangers of COVID-19 significantly attenuates the negative effect of education on distrust of the vaccine. …
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Trust networks for recommender systems
… bilattice-based model that considers trust and distrust as two different but dependent components, and study the accompanying trust metrics. Two of their key building blocks are trust propagation and aggregation. If user a wants to form an opinion about an unknown user x, a can contact one of …
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Dating Preferences among African-American Female College Students: Attitudes about Appearance, Trust, and Interracial Relationships
… supports existing literature on attitudes of distrust among African-American females toward African-American males, with lying, physical aggression, and cheating as top reasons. Distrust based on the females' viewpoints began with listening to warnings from their mothers about men's behavior. …
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Can You Believe What You See? - Controversial Representation of Government Agencies in Martin Gero's Blindspot
… politics and the media, the phenomenon of distrust in the government and how these phenomena are represented in television. In my thesis I argue that the government, more importantly government agencies are exposed to controversial representation and I underpin my notions with analyzing …
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Vaccine hesitancy in Hispanic female registered nurses in the San Antonio area
… findings across all cases included workplace distrust, lack of employer messaging, changing messaging about personal protective equipment, lack of information, the negative effect of vaccine mandates, a rapidly developed vaccine, and participants who had never previously been vaccine hesitant …
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Rogue urban connections: an ethnography of trust and social relations in Observatory, Cape Town
… this study examines how people use trust and distrust in a 'disorderly' urban space. I argue that beneficial social relations that are based on trust and distrust manifest in a liminal space, as is especially exemplified by 'strangers' in and of the environment (Simmel, [1908] 1971). …
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Vaccines at the Intersection of Religion and Politics
… In this sample, vaccine hesitancy was related to distrust of doctors, government organizations, charitable organizations, and books as sources of vaccine information. Christian national beliefs were also significantly correlated with vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine hesitant participants reported less …
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Distributed Cinema: Interactive, Networked Spectatorship In The Age Of Digital Media
… an image and its source, contributes to a distrust of images. The ubiquity of interactive media changes aesthetics of images, as viewers begin to expect interactivity. Networked media changes not only the ways in which viewers access media, but also how they communicate with each other …
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Conspiracy theories and political culture
… and 1970s and which represent an expression of distrust in and scepticism towards government, the media and corporate industry. The final category, postmodern con piracy theories are a more recent development and can be seen as an attempt to use conspiracies as a means of describing and …
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