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What are the Solutions to Uncertainty in the Social Environment?
Proxy’s and ‘inferred trustworthiness’ Herd behavior
If everyone is using it, it has to be good…right?
Closed Systems versus Open Systems
3rd party reputation is perhaps the most common solution What about when reputation is not
possible (or practical)?
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Reputation as a Solution to the Problem of Uncertainty: Information Asymmetries
Problem of Lemons (Akerlof, 1970)
Information asymmetry in the marketplace
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What constitutes a reputation?
What they do… Foster good behavior Punish bad behavior Reduce risk in long term
Transmission can be word-of-mouth, or more chronicled directly
Reputations concern people and organizations, not things.
To be effective, require clear criteria and incentives
Explicit or Implicit?
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Positive, Negative and Mixed Reputation Systems
Positive Start at a baseline, can only go
up.
Negative Start at a baseline, can only go
down.
Mixed Start at a baseline, can go
below or above baseline
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For 3rd Party Reputations to Work...
Must have permanent identities.
Must make the feedback available for others to inspect.
Individuals have to actually pay attention to and use the reputations.
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Trustworthiness
Assessing Trustworthiness
Treated as a ‘characteristic’
Involves initial, one-shot interactions between parties
Theoretically linked to perceived competence and motivations of a given partner Competence to act in a way we deem appropriate Motivation to act in our best interests
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Assessing Trustworthiness
Tseng and Fogg (1999) [from Hertzum Anderson, et al]
First-hand experience Reputation Surface ‘attributes’ Stereotypes
First-hand experience is essential to building ‘trust’, as well as 3rd party reputations
Surface ‘attributes’ and ‘stereotypes’ more accurately about assessing trustworthiness.
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Approaches to Trust
Psychology Trust as “personality trait” (dispositional trust) Trust as learned experience (learned trust)
Philosophy Trust versus reliance and other concepts
Sociology Trust as behavior (situational trust)
Through risk and uncertainty Other factors such as the medium (i.e., CMC) Perceptions based on characteristics: assessment of
trustworthiness Trust as cognitive: It is reflected in attitudes about
another’s desire and ability to act in a positive way towards us in a given context.
“Trust concerns a positive expectation regarding the behavior of somebody or something in a situation that entails risk to the trusting party.”
“Trust exists whether it is explicitly recognized or not”
(Marsh and Dibben)
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Trust-Building in Sociological Sense
Trust-building
Involves repeated interactions between parties
Theoretically linked to risk in the social exchange situation (e.g., what is at stake in the interaction?)
Trust is not the same as cooperation
Trust-building can involve various types of uncertainty, which is also distinct from risk. (e.g., how confident are we in a particular outcome?)
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Locus of Trust
Interpersonal Trust
Organizational Trust Do organizations ‘trust’?
Society-level Trust “general trust”
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Trust versus Reliance
Role of Betrayal If we rely on someone to do
something, if he/she/it does not do so we are disappointed. i.e., inanimate objects (car
brakes, computer)
Role of ‘monitoring’ systems Monitoring and surveillance of
individuals: trust, distrust, or reliance?