(outlink) Department of Sociology: Trust Online Edition

The University of Oxford Department of Sociology has made available the book Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, a collection of academic papers on trust (edited by Diego Gambetta). The reflections on the nature of trust (the first half or so of the book) are relevant for interpersonal relations including seduction. I found several new techniques for increasing trust just by reading the first chapter and thinking about what that meant; I look forward to reading the rest.

(outlink) Group Activities, Games, Exercises & Initiatives

For those that arrange seminars and group activities (that would occasionally be me), here's a bunch of Group Activities, Games, Exercises & Initiatives. Some of these can also be used to kick-start a party, and the trust games might be useful for building trust during a seduction.

If anybody has any games they've got good experience with using for trust (or anything else, really), please add a comment! :)

(outlink) Improv Encyclopedia ++

The Improv Encyclopedia contains over 500 improv games, and a bunch of other theory as a very accessible website. If you want to print it, there's also the Improv Encyclopedia PDF.

While on the topic of improv, you can go on to Impro World Tour to find discussion forums and more people, or go read Improvisation, inc for more background on how to apply this to day-to-day life (theory plus some exercises you can actually run without a partner.)

Other resources (all with articles and games) include:

• Improv Resource Center
  
• The New Improv Page
  
• YESand!com