Strength of religious faith, trusting beliefs and their role in technology acceptance

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart J. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Trusting Beliefs

An investigation of the consumer’s trusting mechanism in emerging healthcare technology

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyu Wei ◽  
Heng Xie ◽  
Xianghui Peng ◽  
Victor Prybutok
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Trust Model ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
Trust Formation ◽  
Trusting Beliefs ◽  
Adoption Intention

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to investigate how the consumer’s trusting mechanism influences their behavioral adoption intention in the context of genetic testing.Design/methodology/approachBased on the technology acceptance theory and trust formation theory, the research posits and develops a comprehensive trust model by integrating trust-related factors that correlate to the consumer’s trusting beliefs and trusting intention. Survey data with 525 respondents allow to test and validate the model.FindingsThe tested model shows that technology institutional trust base, end-user’s cognitive trust base and social influence are significant determinants of trusting beliefs. The findings also reveal that mediation effects of performance expectancy and perceived risks exist in the relationship between trusting beliefs and trusting intention.Originality/valueThe foreseeable positive impact and rapid market growth of emerging healthcare technologies necessitate the strong need to study user acceptance. However, there is a lack of research on how consumers trust and their adoption intention of such innovations. Prior empirical evidence from different contexts and perspectives also show contradictory findings. This research extends the existing technology acceptance literature to a healthcare context, provides an improved generalized understanding of the consumer’s trusting mechanism in emerging biotechnology and discusses practical insights for regulatory authorities, healthcare institutes and medical professionals.

scholarly journals Persuasive Robots Acceptance Model (PRAM): Roles of Social Responses Within the Acceptance Model of Persuasive Robots

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1075-1092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimi Shazwani Ghazali ◽  
Jaap Ham ◽  
Emilia Barakova ◽  
Panos Markopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Psychological Reactance ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
The Social ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Trusting Beliefs ◽  
Partial Least Squares Method

Abstract In the last years, there have been rapid developments in social robotics, which bring about the prospect of their application as persuasive robots to support behavior change. In order to guide related developments and pave the way for their adoption, it is important to understand the factors that influence the acceptance of social robots as persuasive agents. This study extends the technology acceptance model by including measures of social responses. The social responses include trusting belief, compliance, liking, and psychological reactance. Using the Wizard of Oz method, a laboratory experiment was conducted to evaluate user acceptance and social responses towards a social robot called SociBot. This robot was used as a persuasive agent in making decisions in donating to charities. Using partial least squares method, results showed that trusting beliefs and liking towards the robot significantly add the predictive power of the acceptance model of persuasive robots. However, due to the limitations of the study design, psychological reactance and compliance were not found to contribute to the prediction of persuasive robots’ acceptance. Implications for the development of persuasive robots are discussed.

Religious Faith and Psychoanalysis

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-370
Author(s):  
Paul C. Vitz
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith

Charles Williams’s Arthuriad: Mythic Vision and the Possibilities of Belief

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
J. G. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Devotional Poetry ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
Charles Williams ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Intellectual Environment

This essay explores Charles Williams’s use of the Arthurian myth to sustain a religious worldview in the aftermath of sustained attacks on the relevance and veracity of Christian belief in the early twentieth century. The premise to be explored is that key developments in science and philosophy made during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resulted in a cultural and intellectual milieu in which assertions of religious faith became increasingly difficult. In literary terms this became evident in, amongst other things, the significant reduction in the production of devotional poetry. By the late 1930s the intellectual environment was such that Charles Williams, a man of profound religious belief who might otherwise have been expected to produce devotional work, turned to a much older mode, that of myth, that had taken on new relevance in the modern world. Williams’s use of this mode allowed him the possibility of expressing a singularly Christian vision to a world in which such vision was in danger of becoming anathema. This essay examines the way in which Williams’s lexis, verse structure, and narrative mode builds on his Arthurian source material to allow for an appreciation of religiously-informed ideas in the modern world.

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