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Abstract This study argues that conspiracy theorizing essentially revolves around trust and distrust. Political conspiracy theories constitute symptoms of generalized political distrust -what I call the public trust appr...

This study aims to systematically examine the role of influencer marketing in building consumer trust within the context of digital marketing. The rapid growth of social media has transformed marketing strategies, positi...

The article examines the impact of collective narcissism, trust and populism on conspiracy mentality among citizens aged 65 and older in Poland. Understanding their behaviours and attitudes is crucial for at least two re...

Indonesia's Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) remains elevated compared to other ASEAN nations. Various factors contribute to this issues, including high-risk pregnancies and delay in referral to healthcare facilities. One a...

Purpose: This study examines whether trust in the sharing economy (SE) is driven more by decentralised, peer-based mechanisms (normative or cultural-cognitive institutions) or centralised regulatory authority. Design/me...

This paper focuses on warlordism as a phenomenon that occurs in failed states. After evaluating the extant theoretical framework on warlords, we argue that the behavior of groups ruled by such leaders might be better exp...

Abstract The rapid adoption of encrypted communication protocols has raised privacy levels but has also dealt a significant blow to traditional intrusion detection systems that rely on payload inspection for anomaly dete...

Trust is a concept that cannot be easily measured. Further, trust is domain-specific. Trust is a foundational aspect of safe flight operations in the National Airspace System, and while there has been much attention to t...

Previous research has shown that stigmas play an important role in trust. While previous research has focused on trust in individuals with stigmas in various settings, no research that we know of has specifically looked ...

The article examines the institutional legitimation of political power in Ukraine during 2022–2025 under conditions of full-scale war. The study aims to assess the effectiveness of various instruments of legitimation a...

IntroductionAs AI-generated characters become increasingly present in everyday emotional and romantic contexts, questions arise about whether they may begin to occupy relational space traditionally reserved for human par...

Objective Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) play a crucial role in digital healthcare. While existing studies have examined the effect of ECAs’ appearances and nonverbal behaviors on acceptance, the mechanism by wh...

This study investigates how functional and psychological barriers influence Vietnamese consumers' attitudes toward metaverse marketing, with a specific focus on luxury brand preference. The research draws on two theories...

IntroductionThis study examines how decentralized social media platforms are reshaping participatory communication and platform governance in contemporary digital environments. Drawing on a socio-technical perspective, t...

Abstract People with Down syndrome experience a type of ambivalent stigmatisation, which combines stereotypes, emotional reactions, and both positive and negative attitudes. The aim of this study is to analyse the relati...

Abstract Background Since the COVID-19 pandemic routine vaccination rates have dropped in Canada. Many newcomers and refugees experience significant vaccine inequities despite wide vaccine availability and COVID-19 pande...

Web spam degrades the reliability of search engine results by manip- ulating ranking algorithms to raise webpage positions artificially. TrustRank is a popular link-based anti-spam method, its ability to demote highly ra...

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving distributed learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data. Despite its advantages, ensuring trustworthy FL deployment rem...

The significance that trust has in social exchange relationships has led to a growing amount of literature dealing with this phenomenon at a theoretical and an applied level. With the aim of conducting trust research by ...

Abstract BackgroundWomen who are impacted by diverse forms of violence and structural disadvantage such as poverty, health inequities, and precarious housing experience significant barriers to health care. Ou...

IntroductionArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in journalism, yet audience responses may depend on both AI provenance, meaning who or what is presented as having written the story, and transparency cue...

Despite widespread adoption, machine learning models remain mostly black boxes. Understanding the reasons behind predictions is, however, quite important in assessing trust, which is fundamental if one plans to take acti...

Although many critics are reluctant to accept the trustworthiness of qualitative research, frameworks for ensuring rigour in this form of work have been in existence for many years. Guba's constructs, in particular, have...

There are considerable number of approaches to policy specification both for security management and policy driven network management purposes as reported in [20]. This specification sort security policies into two basic...