Wrestling With Expectations: An Examination of How Asian American College Students Negotiate Personal, Parental, and Societal Expectations

Negotiate Role Expectations and Access Professional Resources

College students' expectations of the results of drinking.

Social drinkers, when drinking, are expected to feel better and to be kinder, more fun to be with and more energetic and active than they would be if they were not drinking; inebriated alcoholics are expected to be meaner, less fun to be with and more lethargic than they would be if they were not inebriated.

How do Expectations about the Macroeconomy A↵ect Personal Expectations and Behavior?⇤

Using a representative online panel from the U.S., we examine how people update their economic expectations and alter their economic behavior in response to changes in their macroeconomic expectations. We collect novel data on people’s subjective expectations regarding the probability of a recession and create exogenous variation in these expectations by providing respondents with di↵erent prof...

An Examination of Employers’ Perceptions and Expectations of IS Entry-level Personal and Interpersonal Skills

Employers hiring entry-level information systems personnel have expectations about the entry-level expertise in a number of skill/knowledge areas including interpersonal and management, technical, and general business specialties, in addition to established organizational hiring guidelines. Furthermore, based on recent experience, these same employers have perceptions of the delivery of this re...

What if high expectations feel good? Perceived parental expectations, their meanings, and bulimic symptoms in Black and White college women.

This study aimed to test an interactive model of perceived parental expectations and the meaning of those expectations in relation to bulimic symptoms in Black (n=97) and White (n=179) college women. Black young women reported higher parental expectations and attached more positive meanings to high parental expectations, in comparison to their White peers. There was an interactive effect for Bl...