We found that the use of smartphones in public is reducing the chance that people talk to strangers, which makes them feel less trust towards others. We want to supplement this experimental finding with correlational data from a large-scale survey. Any leads will be very highly appreciated.
I know that Robert Putnam(USA) has worked quite a lot on the concepts of trust and social contentedness. I have worked on the concept of familiar stranger and trust. Look also for the key word of 'strategic trust' and you find some social experiments. There is one specific work you may find it useful, they used some technologies on phones to trace people and their interactions, Paulos, E & Goodman,E. (2004) which could be found in this link http://www.paulos.net/research/intel/familiarstranger/index.htm
I'm not completely sure, but think I saw something like that from the Pew Research Internet Project. http://www.pewinternet.org/
I think ...u can use Principal Component Analysis for this kind of measures.....
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