Speech Perception: When to Put Your Money Where the Mouth Is

Put your money where your mouth is.

Put your money where your mouth is! Explaining collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacy.

Insights from appraisal theories of emotion are used to integrate elements of theories on collective action. Three experiments with disadvantaged groups systematically manipulated procedural fairness (Study 1), emotional social support (Study 2), and instrumental social support (Study 3) to examine their effects on collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacy. Resul...

University of Groningen Put Your Money Where Your Mouth

We present DIAL, a model of group dynamics and opinion dynamics. It features dialogues, in which agents gamble about reputation points. Intra-group radicalisation of opinions appears to be an emergent phenomenon. We position this model within the theoretical literature on opinion dynamics and social influence. Moreover, we investigate the effect of argumentation on group structure by simulation...

Requestive Speech Acts Realization Patterns: Observation from Persian

Without knowing the speech act functions, it would be difficult to make correct requests in a language. Studies in pragmalinguistics have shown that conventionally direct and indirect requestive patterns are perceived differently in different speech communities. This study investigates the perception of the requestive speech acts by Persian native speakers to determine the socially appropriate ...

“putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” – Information Elicitation Mechanism Design When Agents Privately Know Their Quality of Information

Aggregating dispersed information can produce extremely accurate predictions. When organizational structures are decentralized and/or the information needed to generate good forecasts is highly dispersed, the transaction and agency costs of collecting information increase significantly. The increased speed of modern information technologies opens the possibility of designing more efficient info...