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UrduRapid increase in academic publishing undermines public trust in science, study finds
Tag: Trust
Combating Distrust Online: New GW Study Explains Why Current Messaging Efforts May Not Be Effective
New research led by the George Washington University finds that current mitigation efforts to combat distrust online may not be effective because organizations and governments tackling distrust are only targeting one topic and only one geographical scale.
When the Gig is Up; Gig Workers Don’t Always Trust Their Boss and That Might Be a Good Thing
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire took a closer look at gig workers – which include freelancers, independent contractors and temporary workers – and examined relationships between workers and their managers and found that one trait, trust, could be a double-edged sword.
University Hospitals in Cleveland ranked as one of nation’s 30 most-trusted health care brands
Branding agency Monigle ranked University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, as one of the 30 most-trusted health care brands in the United States.
Teens who trust online information find it less stressful
Teens’ trust in the news they consume on social media – or lack of it – may be key to whether it supports or detracts from their well-being, according to Cornell-led psychology research.
Education levels impact on belief in scientific misinformation and mistrust of COVID-19 preventive measures
A new study has found that people with a university degree were less likely to believe in COVID-19 misinformation and more likely to trust preventive measures than those without a degree.
American Assn of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) President Comments on Nurses Topping Gallup Poll as Most Trusted Profession for 21st Year
For 21 consecutive years, the American public has ranked nurses as the number one profession with the highest honesty and ethics values, according to the latest Gallup poll released Jan. 10, 2023. Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, president of the American Association…
Underestimating people’s COVID concerns undermines cooperation
Misperceptions of marginalized and disadvantaged communities’ level of concern regarding COVID-19, as well as other issues such as climate change, constitutes a form of social misinformation that may undermine cooperation and trust needed to address collective problems, according to new Cornell-led research.
Works well with robots?
As more artificial intelligence systems and robots aid human workers, building trust between them is key to getting the job done. One University of Georgia professor is seeking to bridge that gap with assistance from the U.S. military.
Do Passengers Want Self-driving Cars to Behave More or Less Like Them?
Researchers asked participants about their personal driving behaviors such as speed, changing lanes, accelerating and decelerating and passing other vehicles. They also asked them the same questions about their expectations of a self-driving car performing these very same tasks. The objective of the study was to examine trust and distrust to see if there is a relationship between an individual’s driving behaviors and how they expect a self-driving car to behave.
UNH Research: No Second Chance to Make Trusting First Impression, or is There?
It’s important to make a good first impression and according to research at the University of New Hampshire a positive initial trust interaction is helpful in building a lasting trust relationship. Researchers found that trusting a person early on can have benefits over the life of the relationship, even after a violation of that trust. However, equally interesting was that if people were not trusted during a first meeting, there were still opportunities to build trust in the future.
Study Finds Strong Links Between Trust and Social Media Use
A recent study finds a powerful correlation between the extent to which users trust Facebook, and the intensity of their Facebook use. The study also finds what contributes to that user trust.
Betrayal or Cooperation? Analytical Investigation of Behavior Drivers
When looking at humanity from a macroscopic perspective, there are numerous examples of people cooperating to form various groupings. Yet at the basic two-person level, people tend to betray each other, as found in games like the prisoner’s dilemma, even though people would receive a better payoff if they cooperated among themselves. The topic of cooperation and how and when people start trusting one another has been studied numerically, and in a paper in Chaos, researchers investigate what drives cooperation analytically.
Policy expert available to discuss trust in government during the coronavirus crisis
Adam Wellstead, associate professor of public policy at Michigan Technological University, is available to speak to journalists about public trust in policymakers in the time of the novel coronavirus. Together with Paul Cairney, professor of politics and public policy at…
Trusting strangers: Details matter to millennials using Uber, Airbnb
Modern marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb necessitate trust among complete strangers, and new research from the University of Notre Dame examines that trust and the ways in which it differs among platforms.