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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"generalized trust,"”.
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The Role of Trust in Neighborhood Recovery: Examinations from New Orleans’ Recovery from Hurricane Katrina
… the circumstances under which different kinds of trust influenced neighborhood recovery in the Greater New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina. These analyses provide insights into the effects of neighborhood levels of social capital, organizational capacity, particularized racial trust and …
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The social exchange/reciprocity relationship between employers and employees and the role of trust in the exchange process
… Study 2 examines the role of dispositional trust (generalized trust) and relational trust (trust in supervisor) in the employer inducement a?? employee contribution process. The results of the study failed to confirm the reciprocity relationship but fully confirmed the role of trust in the …
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Ego-tribalism in religion, politics, and media : a changing landscape calls for a new theory of trust.
… on individual manifestations of social trust typically emphasize three theoretical frameworks: rational choice, psychological/epistemological capacity, or network distribution. In this dissertation, I argue that these approaches have limited explanatory power, and instead put forth a new …
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Trust and The Rule of Law: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Relationship between the Rule of Law and Economic Development
… understood, in this thesis, as a combination of trust and cooperative norms. This thesis suggests that the rule of law may be understood as concerned with cultivating a trustworthy government. In addition, private property rights and contractual enforcement may be categorised as types of …
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Reciprocity and Prejudice: An Experiment of Hindu-Muslim Cooperation in the Slums of Mumbai
… experimental treatment also radically increased trust and reduced ethnic discrimination of the generally mistrusted Muslim minority. The survey analysis compared the real-life effect of reciprocity with prominent alternative explanations from the literature. Compared to other factors, positive …
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On the Determinants of Generalised Trust: An Investigation of the Institution-Centred and Society-Centred Perspectives
… and society-centred perspectives on generalized trust. Using advanced statistical techniques, I first assess some central implications of the two approaches employing observational data. In particular, I begin by suggesting that the scarcity of different goods in a region (lack of …
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How The Public Perception Of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life
… that are essential for social cohesion: social trust (generalized trust in fellow citizens) and cross-cutting contact (interactions across group boundaries). They serve as a social glue that binds people together, as both elements foster positive and tolerant attitudes toward those outside one’s …
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Framing Norms and Beliefs: Experimental Approaches to Tax Compliance, Gender Identity, Religious Behavior, and Risk-Taking.
… survey data from the United States, we examine trusting institutions, generalized trust, and diverse religious beliefs. Our primary focus is individual reactions to conventional conformity, altruistic punishment, and individual problem-solving abilities (coping). We discovered that people with a …
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Efficient localization methods for a point source and rigid body
… and computationally efficient solution using generalized trust region subproblems (GTRS) technique but with non-optimal accuracy, therefore we add proper range weighting (SR-WLS) into it and investigate the resulting performances of mean squared error (MSE) and bias. Its asymptotic efficiency …