Title : 
The Role of Trust in Social Life
         
        
            Author : 
Yan, Dong ; Qi, Wang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Psychol., Renmin Univ. of China Beijing, Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper reviews the literature of trust in sociology and psychology. The author discusses trust in three important social contexts: interpersonal situation, organizational settings and Internet life. Furthermore, the author proposes a synthetic trust model with a multi-disciplinary approach as a future research direction and described its implications for trust study.
         
        
            Keywords : 
social sciences computing; trusted computing; Internet; interpersonal situation; organizational settings; psychology; social contexts; social life; sociology; trust literature; Context; Electronic commerce; Internet; Organizations; Psychology; interpersonal trust; trust; trust in organization; trust in virtual reality;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2011 IEEE 10th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Changsha
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-2135-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TrustCom.2011.120