The Lovers' Guide

Exploring the Betrothed Lovers

We present the ongoing activities and the first results achieved in a research project concerning the understanding of narrative in the high school. Students and teachers experimented with new ways to learn linguistic and digital skills, by using a collaborative learning environment built around the novel I Promessi Sposi. We analyzed the literary text, extracting social networks of characters ...

Home for Future Earth Lovers

Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers

Empirical studies of fishers’ preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using data from a stated choice experiment with Swedish commercial fishers. Our results show that almost 90% of the respondents do not behave as expected-utility maximizers. 48% of the fishers can be broad...

Nudging Art Lovers to Donate

Many nonprofit organizations face revenue uncertainty due to funding cuts. It is crucial for them to supplement existing revenue streams by private donations, and apply thoughtful market segmentation in their pursuit of donors. We introduce the behavioral concept of 'nudge' based on the possibility of loss aversion affecting willingness-to-donate, and investigate its implications for fundraisin...

Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers

319 Does this sound like a song title to you? For some reason, Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves pops into my head. But no, it is the title of an upcoming article in our journal by Andy Revelle, Kevin Messner, Aaron Shrimplin, and Susan Hurst – all from Miami University in Ohio. It is an interesting study about how different types of academic library patrons (“opinion types”) approach the acc...