Fashionable or fashion victim?

Fashionable Technology, Fashion Waves, and Post-Adoption Regret and Satisfaction

This research attempts to understand user adoption of fashionable technologies (e.g., iPhone or iPad) and the influence of fashion waves on adopters of both fashionable and non-fashionable technologies. A research model was developed based on the regret theory. We tested the model by examining 20,122 customer reviews collected from Amazon.com. A theory-driven naïve Bayes classifier was develope...

Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability

Although it has been claimed that people care more about identifiable than statistical victims, demonstrating this “identifiable victim effect” has proven difficult because identification usually provides information about a victim, and people may respond to the information rather than to identification per se. We show that a very weak form of identifiability—determining the victim without prov...

Suffering in Fashion: Relationships between Suffering, the Production of Garments and Their Appropriation as Fashionable Items

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Almond, Kevin Suffering in Fashion: Relationships between Suffering, The Production of Garments and Their Appropriation as Fashionable Items Original Citation Almond, Kevin (2012) Suffering in Fashion: Relationships between Suffering, The Production of Garments and Their Appropriation as Fashionable

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Managed care as victim or villain?