Peer effects on compliance with extortive requests

Increasing compliance with medical examination requests directed to children with autism: effects of a high-probability request procedure.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a high-probability (high-p) request sequence as a means of increasing compliance with medical examination tasks. Participants were children who had been diagnosed with autism and who exhibited noncompliance during general medical examinations. The inclusion of the high-p request sequence effectively increased compliance with medical...

How to Make Requests That Overcome Obstacles to Compliance

Speakers who request information from others often face potential obstacles to getting that information. Their addressees may not know the information, may be unwilling to give it, or may not remember it. In three experiments we show that speakers estimate the greatest potential obstacle to compliance and try to overcome it through their choice of indirect, or conditional, request. I f speakers...

Assessing Tehran’s Urban Structure Effects on Non-Compliance with FAR Regulations

Web Portal for Matching Loan Requests and Investment Offers in Peer-To-Peer Lending

Online Peer-To-Peer lending has seen some growing media attention since its recent creation. Nonetheless, the systems which provide deal brokerage in this context have yet to be given significant consideration within the scientific community. This paper is part of a broader effort to setup a Peer-to-Peer lending community in Portugal. This work focuses on solving the infrastructural problem of ...

Acts of Benevolence: A Limited-Resource Account of Compliance with Charitable Requests

Across six field and lab experiments, we found that impaired self-control fosters compliance with charitable requests. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that self-regulatory resource depletion was induced when participants yielded to the initial requests of a foot-in-the-door script aimed at procuring volunteer behavior. Experiment 3 demonstrated that self-regulatory resource depletion mediated the ef...