Roger Mayer

About

Dr. Roger C. Mayer is a Professor of Leadership in the Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NC State University. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, Baylor University, Singapore Management University, and The University of Akron, where he served four years as department chair. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. His research focuses on trust, employee decision making, attitudes, and effectiveness. Mayer is a leading scholar on trust in organizations, with his research published in numerous premiere scholarly journals and cited over 50,000 times across various fields. He co-authored a significant theory of trust with David Schoorman and James Davis, which has received notable recognition, including the Influential Article Award and the Best of the Second Decade Award from the Academy of Management Review. His recent interdisciplinary research explores trust in societal contexts such as government and law enforcement, supported by substantial grants. Mayer serves on multiple editorial boards and has been involved in interdisciplinary trust and decision-making research funded by grants through NC State’s Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. He has also worked as an organizational consultant across various industries and has been recognized for his teaching excellence, including winning the Outstanding…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Business
• Computer Security
• Psychotherapist
• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Aesthetics
• Philosophy
• Environmental economics
• Risk analysis (engineering)

Selected publications

• Understanding the psychological nature and mechanisms of political trust

  PLoS ONE · 2019-05-15 · 100 citations

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  Political trust is a perennially important concern and the events of the last few years have, in many ways, heightened this importance. The relevant scholarship has done much to meet this challenge but continues to struggle with definitional unclarities and an inability to provide accounts that consistently operate as expected. The current research seeks to test the potential of a classic model of trust from the organizational sciences that makes specific arguments regarding the psychological na…

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• The Overlooked Perspective of Police Trust in the Public: Measurement and Effects on Police Job Behaviors

  Criminal Justice Policy Review · 2019-05-31 · 46 citations

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  Many studies have looked at the public’s trust in the police, but very few have examined police trust in the public. Based on Mayer, Davis, and Schoorman’s model of trust, we conducted two studies. The first study created scales measuring the antecedents of trust and assessed police trust in the public based on a survey of 990 police officers from across the United States. The second study used the trust measures developed in the first study, as well as supervisors’ evaluations and archival perf…

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• Which contributions predict whether developers are accepted into github teams

  2018-05-28 · 23 citations

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  Open-source software (OSS) often evolves from volunteer contributions, so OSS development teams must cooperate with their communities to attract new developers. However, in view of the myriad ways that developers interact over platforms for OSS development, observers of these communities may have trouble discerning, and thus learning from, the successful patterns of developer-to-team interactions that lead to eventual team acceptance. In this work, we study project communities on GitHub to disco…

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• Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis

  PLoS ONE · 2021 · 21 citations

  The impacts of autonomous vehicles (AV) are widely anticipated to be socially, economically, and ethically significant. A reliable assessment of the harms and benefits of their large-scale deployment requires a multi-disciplinary approach. To that end, we employed Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to make such an assessment. We obtained opinions from 19 disciplinary experts to assess the significance of 13 potential harms and eight potential benefits that might arise under four deployments scheme…

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• A call for transdisciplinary trust research in the artificial intelligence era

  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · 2025-07-18 · 8 citations

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  Trust is a cornerstone and enabler of human civilization, determining the very nature of how people interact with each other. The swift integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life poses grand societal challenges and necessitates a reevaluation of trust. Our bibliometric literature review calls for scientists and stakeholders to cross traditional academic boundaries to address emerging and evolving societal challenges arising from AI. We propose a transdisciplinary research framew…

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Frequent coauthors

• James H. Davis

  University of South Alabama

  19 shared

• F. David Schoorman

  Purdue University System

  16 shared

• Paul W. Mulvey

  7 shared

• Mark A. Fuller

  St. Francis Xavier University

  6 shared

• Jing Zhao

  Henan Agricultural University

  5 shared

• Richard S. Warr

  North Carolina State University

  4 shared

• Michele Williams

  4 shared

• Mark B. Gavin

  West Virginia University

  3 shared

Awards & honors

• Influential Article Award 1995-1999 by the Conflict Manageme…
• Best of the Second Decade Award for Frame-Breaking, Innovati…
• Outstanding Teacher Award at the College of Business at the…
• Financial Management top 10 in business school research with…

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