“…Previous studies suggested that trust could mitigate consumers' perceived risk of disclosing personal information to direct marketers and conducting online transactions and thus reduce consumers' uncertainty of participating in e-commerce and interactive marketing activities (McKnight, Choudhury, & Kacmar, 2002;Malhotra et al, 2004;Pavlou, 2003;Okazaki et al, 2009). Chinese empirical research has corroborated that online consumers' perceived risks and trust are negatively related (e.g., Chen, Xu, & Mao, 2010;Lin, Lu, & Lu, 2011;Yang, Qian, & Pang, 2011;Zhao & Ji, 2010). Moreover, Chen et al (2010) found that perceived trust in SNSs significantly mitigated consumers' perceived privacy risks.…”