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However, shared traffic messages in IoV may deviate from on-road conditions due to self-interest protection or insufficient sensor performance. Therefore, evaluating the trustworthiness of shared messages is essential for vehicles to make informed decisions. To this end, a truth-oriented trust model for shared traffic message is proposed, which is inspired by human trust establishment mechanisms (HS-TEMs). Firstly, we quantify the integrated trust value (I-VT) of the message sender by fusing self-experience-based vehicle trust (SEB-VT) and peer-recommendation-based vehicle trust (PRB-VT). In SEB-VT, a sample-size-dependent smoothing factor dynamically trades off prior information and empirical evidence, reducing instability under small-sample conditions. In PRB-VT, we employ link analysis to compute the reference degree of recommendation information, which mitigates biases arising from subjective cognitive limitations. Secondly, with the I-VT of vehicles, we calculate event trust (ET) by differentiating message attitudes and quantifying their relative influence, which effectively reduces the impact of individual bias on the final judgment. 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