Technological Reliance

Auditors ’ Reliance

The purpose of the current study is to examine the degree of reliance external auditors are willing to place on the work of the internal audit function (IAF) when the IAF's objectivity might be compromised. Experienced external auditors (N = 142) participated in a 2 (reporting relationship: audit committee of the board of directors [ACBOD] or chief finance officer [CFO]) by 2 (IAF involvement i...

Self-reliance and Poverty

In the current political and social climate, with its call for self-reliance as the means by which families and individuals should support themselves, the official U.S. poverty indicator may be measuring the size of a population that is of less interest to policymakers than in past years. We present here an alternative measure of poverty for the United States population that is based on a famil...

Reducing reliance on inaccurate information.

People learn from the texts that they read, but sometimes what they read is wrong. Previous research has demonstrated that individuals encode even obvious inaccuracies, at times relying on the misinformation to complete postreading tasks. In the present study, we investigated whether the influence of inaccurate information might be reduced by encouraging the retrieval of accurate knowledge. Par...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

Regulatory Focus and Reliance on Implicit Preferences 1 Running head: REGULATORY FOCUS AND RELIANCE ON IMPLICIT PREFERENCES Regulatory Focus and Reliance on Implicit Preferences in Consumption Contexts

The present research tested the assumption that implicit preferences fit the eagerness of a promotion focus, but not the need for safe judgments and decisions of a prevention focus. In two studies, we assessed individual differences in implicit preferences for consumer goods and investigated their influence on self-regulatory behavior. In line with expectations, implicit preferences predicted c...