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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"social trust"”.
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Hunters' responses to chronic wasting disease: specialization, social trust, and perceived risk
… personal risks from CWD and the influence of trust in wildlife agencies as a determinant of risk. This dissertation presents three articles that address these knowledge gaps using data from surveys (n = 9,567) of resident and nonresident deer and elk hunters in eight states. Hunters were …
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Risk, social trust and knowledge: public perceptions of gene technology in Britain
… characterised more simply as a special case of social attitudes, rather than as psychological phenomena in their own right. Following a short discussion of research methodology, two empirical investigations follow that explore the structure of public views on gene technology risk and on GM food …
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General Social Trust And Political Trust Within Social And Political Groups: A Case Study
People in society with high levels of generalized social trust and political trust are more likely to engage in civic activism and participation. Therefore, people involved in social and political groups will likely have higher levels of generalized social and political trust than the general …
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Where The Two Trusts Meet: How Social Trust Influences Political Trust In The New Media Environment
… influence the forming and updating of political trust. Technical developments have created the layer of one’s personal network between traditional media and its audience by allowing one to share any article with a few clicks. Reflecting this change in how one shares information, this dissertation …
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Colonial Policy, Social Trust, and Economic Resilience: The Long-term Impacts of Imperial Russian Settlement in Southern Kazakhstan
… differential experiences of colonialism affect social and economic processes in the long-term. In this dissertation, I focus on the impacts of colonialism on two linked outcomes: social trust and rural resilience. How do colonial legacies shape social trust in the long-run? And how does the …
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Ego-tribalism in religion, politics, and media : a changing landscape calls for a new theory of trust.
Scholarship 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 …
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Corporate Social Responsibility and its Effects on Corporate-Community Relationships: A Case Study of Chevron's Richmond Refinery Fire in 2012
<p> Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a practical and strategic implementation process corporations often use to build social trust with the communities they serve. This process of developing social trust, according to Francis Fukuyama, creates conditions for corporations and communities to …
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Economic experiments on truth-telling, information aggregation, and income inequality
… impact of income inequality on attribution and social trust. We do so by using a combination of surveys and behavioral lab experiments. Using positional primes we find that a higher relative position has a positive impact on belief in meritocracy and social trust, which we causally identify both …
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Social dynamics of energy consumption
… climate change. Specifically, I investigate social status, status perception and social trust as drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and, inversely, as contributors to climate solutions. My analysis focuses on the developing country case of India, that is expected to significantly contribute …
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Social science and social capital in the Lamprey River Watershed: A resident survey for community and environmental planning and predicting support for innovative land use
… and behavior relevant to planning.</p><p>Social capital is examined to test for its use in community and environmental planning. Social capital is measured in the Resident Survey from information about both formal and informal social activities as well as measures of trust in various parts …
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The Implications of The Sharing Economy for Public Relations Theory and Practice: A Thematic Analysis of Airbnb, Uber and TaskRabbit
… and found the relationship qualities of social trust, safety and support to be prominent elements of relationships communicated by each company. Serving as one of the only public relations studies to address the sharing economy, this thesis extends relationship management theory's …
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How The Public Perception Of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life
… polarization for the quality of America’s social fabric. Specifically, I focus on two factors 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 …
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Violence against foreign-born women in Sweden
… with intimate partner violence and perceived social isolation and low social trust, respectively. Thus, among abused women, social trust and absence of social isolation may contribute to resilience against poor mental health. The current findings indicate the need for interventions directed …
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You Talkin' To Me? The Effect of Communication Barriers on Trust in Diverse Societies
… societies tend to suffer from lower levels of social trust, but the reasons for this trust deficit are still not fully clear. In this thesis, I contend that communication barriers between ethnic groups who speak different languages could be one reason for this effect. Second, I consider whether …
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You Talkin' To Me? The Effect of Communication Barriers on Trust in Diverse Societies
… societies tend to suffer from lower levels of social trust, but the reasons for this trust deficit are still not fully clear. In this thesis, I contend that communication barriers between ethnic groups who speak different languages could be one reason for this effect. Second, I consider whether …
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Impact of Protestant spirituality and religious community on the well-being of people in Hong Kong
… can be viewed from personal, interpersonal and social dimensions. The primary objective of the study is to examine whether, how and why the spirituality and religious community of Protestant tradition can affect the well-being of people in the context of Hong Kong. In the first phase of the …
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Does Child Sponsorship have a Positive Impact on the Quality of Life and Social Behavior of Sponsored Children? Evidence from Indonesia
… program focuses their work on the emotional, social, and spiritual development of sponsored children. This study investigates the impacts of child sponsorship on the quality of life and social behavior of sponsored children using age-eligibility as an instrument for sponsorship, a time …
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Egyptian Attitudes toward Democracy: What the Afrobarometer Reveals about the Influence of Individuals' Social Characteristics
… type of residence, interest in public affairs, social and political trust, and employment status on attitudes toward and interpretations of democracy among 1200 Egyptians living in urban and rural areas who participated in Afrobarometer survey in 2013. The author uses principle component and …
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Characterizing tailings professional labor demand
… of tailings (mine waste) facilities. To regain social trust and environmental credibility, the mining industry must do better at managing tailings. The recently issued Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) places significant demand on tailings professionals worldwide. Given …
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