Trust: Decision under Uncertainty

This paper investigates individual’s trust attitude towards human beings and machine. Based on previews study, this paper looked at how gender and risk attitude contribute to trust in strangers. Moreover, the new factor ambiguity attitude was also introduced. Besides, this paper tried to find out if there is an imparity in trustors’ trust attitude between these two treatment groups. The result turns out, only gender and ambiguity attitude have effect on participants’ trust attitude towards machine. And trustors trust machine more compared to a random stranger.