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Across several branches of conversational interaction research including interactions with social robots, embodied agents, and conversational assistants, users have identified trust as a critical part of those interactions. Nevertheless,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Justin Edwards , Elaheh Sanoubari

In human society, trust is an essential component of social attitude that helps build and maintain long-term, healthy relationships which creates a strong foundation for cooperation, enabling individuals to work together effectively and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anushka Debnath , Stephen Cranefield , Emiliano Lorini , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

Cooperation in human society is sustained by reputation. In general, the reputation of an individual is determined by others who observe his behavior, but this rarely happens in private situations. This may cause people to behave…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-11 Daiki Miyagawa , Koki Miyabara , Genki Ichinose

As chatbots increasingly blur the boundary between automated systems and human conversation, the foundations of trust in these systems warrant closer examination. While regulatory and policy frameworks tend to define trust in normative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Aditya Gulati , Nuria Oliver

Social influence is the process by which individuals adapt their opinion, revise their beliefs, or change their behavior as a result of social interactions with other people. In our strongly interconnected society, social influence plays a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-15 Mehdi Moussaid , Juliane E. Kaemmer , Pantelis P. Analytis , Hansjoerg Neth

Micro-task crowdsourcing has become a successful mean to obtain high-quality data from a large crowd of diverse people. In this context, trust between all the involved actors (i.e. requesters, workers, and platform owners) is a critical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Jie Yang , Alessandro Bozzon

In a world where ideas flow freely between people across multiple platforms, we often find ourselves relying on others' information without an objective standard to judge whether those opinions are accurate. The present study tests an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Niccolo Pescetelli , Nick Yeung

Keeping a high reputation, by contributing to common efforts, plays a key role in explaining the evolution of collective cooperation among unrelated agents in a complex society. Nevertheless, it is not necessarily an individual feature, but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Siyu He , Qin Li , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

We consider a distributed multi-user system where individual entities possess observations or perceptions of one another, while the truth is only known to themselves, and they might have an interest in withholding or distorting the truth.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Parinaz Naghizadeh , Mingyan Liu

This article proposes in depth comparative study of the most popular, used and analyzed Trust and Reputation System (TRS) according to the trust and reputation literature and in terms of specific trustworthiness criteria. This survey is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Hasnae Rahimi , Hanan El Bekkali

The peer-to-peer (P2P) economy relies on establishing trust in distributed networked systems, where the reliability of a user is assessed through digital peer-review processes that aggregate ratings into reputation scores. Here we present…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-15 Giacomo Livan , Fabio Caccioli , Tomaso Aste

The Web and its main tools (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter) deeply raise and renew fundamental questions, that everyone asks almost every day: Is this information or content true? Can I trust this author or source? These questions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Gilles Sahut , André Tricot

Due to popularization of internet and e-commerce, more and more people getting involved in online shopping market. A large number of companies have been transferred to the internet where online customers have been increased due to easy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Alam Gir , Jenny Lundberg

Nowadays, social networks became essential in information exchange between individuals. Indeed, as users of these networks, we can send messages to other people according to the links connecting us. Moreover, given the large volume of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Salma Ben Dhaou , Mouloud Kharoune , Arnaud Martin , Boutheina Ben Yaghlane

This position paper aims to highlight and discuss the role of a robot's social credibility in interaction with humans. In particular, I want to explore a potential relation between social credibility and a robot's acceptability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Patrick Holthaus

Reasoning about agent preferences on a set of alternatives, and the aggregation of such preferences into some social ranking is a fundamental issue in reasoning about uncertainty and multi-agent systems. When the set of agents and the set…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Moshe Tennenholtz

Trust serves as a fundamental pillar of human interactions, playing a crucial role in economic, social, and political relationships. While traditional models of trust primarily focus on the decision making of the first player, this paper…

General Economics · Economics 2025-12-22 Madjid Eshaghi Gordji , Mohamadali Berahman

Despite recent advances in reputation technologies, it is not clear how reputation systems can affect human cooperation in social networks. Although it is known that two of the major mechanisms in the evolution of cooperation are spatial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-24 Tatsuya Sasaki , Hitoshi Yamamoto , Isamu Okada , Satoshi Uchida

Reputation and punishment are significant guidelines for regulating individual behavior in human society, and those with a good reputation are more likely to be imitated by others. In addition, society imposes varying degrees of punishment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Gui Zhang , Yichao Yao , Ziyan Zeng , Minyu Feng , Manuel Chica

Trust models are widely used in various computer science disciplines. The main purpose of a trust model is to continuously measure trustworthiness of a set of entities based on their behaviors. In this article, the novel notion of "rational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Mehrdad Nojoumian