Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
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In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system. In this insightful and entertaining book, Schneier weaves together ideas from across the social and biological sciences to explain how society induces trust. He shows the unique role of trust in facilitating and stabilizing human society. He discusses why and how trust has evolved, why it works the way it does, and the ways the information society is changing everything.
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Cooperation and trust in many multi-agent systems relies crucially on the ability to detect and then avoid or sanction adversarial actions taken by others.
“Cooperation and trust in many multi-agent systems relies crucially on the ability to detect (and then avoid or sanction) adversarial actions taken by others (Schneier, 2012;Field & Ostrom, 1992).”
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de Witt, C. S., Krawiecka, K., Krawczuk, I., Hagag, B., Anderson, W. L., Belcak, P., Bucknall, B., Cai, X., Chopra, A., Cohen, D., et al. (2025) · arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.02077 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
“Cooperation and trust in many multi-agent systems relies crucially on the ability to detect (and then avoid or sanction) adversarial actions taken by others (Schneier, 2012; Ostrom, 1990).”
- Authors
- Schneier, B.
- Corresponding author
- Schneier, Bruce
- ORCID
- Schneier, Bruce
- Venue
- Wiley eBooks
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-02-14
- OpenAlex
- W4415050906
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 11.40
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Wiley eBooks (publishedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Capital and Networks
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Access Control and Trust
- Keywords
- trust, information society, social stability, social sciences, corporate social responsibility, global warming, political system
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