Stigma-Based Rejection Experiences Affect Trust in Others

How the Opinions of Others Affect Memory for Consumption Experiences

Consumers rely on their memory for past consumption experiences when next purchasing in the product category, when advising other consumers, and when setting expectations for future consumption experiences. Although previously considered to be a permanent record of the experience, consumer memory has recently been demonstrated to change with exposure to post-consumption advertising. The results...

Stigma-Based Rejection and the Detection of Signs of Acceptance

After people experience social rejection, one tactic to restore a sense of belonging is to selectively attend to and readily perceive cues that connote acceptance. The multimotive model of responses to rejection suggests that contextual features of the rejection are important determinants of how people are motivated to respond. According to this model, when rejection is construed as pervasive a...

Children’s Heart Rate and Vicariously Aroused Affect in Response to Others’ Differing Emotional Experiences

This study examined vicariously induced Heart Rate (HR) patterns in response to others’ sadness, fear, anger and happiness, in children (N = 44, 22 girls and 22 boys, aged 7 to 10), when confronted with a brief emotion evocative film consisting of a series of evocative episodes each of which was of at least moderate intensity. HR was consistently higher relative to baseline in response to other...

Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others

Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter?

Though the recent literature offers intuitively appealing bases for, and evidence of, a linkage among religious beliefs, religious participation and economic outcomes, evidence on a relationship between religion and trust is mixed. By allowing for an attendance effect, disaggregating Protestant denominations, and using a more extensive data set, probit models of the General Social Survey (GSS),...