Abstract The present studies were aimed at developing the Hungarian version of Short Dark Triad questionnaire (SD3-HU). internal structure translated was examined with confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling. Then construct concurrent validity tested. obtained results based on a total seven independent samples ( N TOTAL = 2161). While SD3-HU showed inconsistenc...

Is it possible to analyze building materials’ culturally specific meanings? How can understanding such meanings be useful in the integration of sustainable practices local communities? Our research explores this question with objective informing future pathways transition a carbon-neutral built environment including locally sourced materials. Relying on environmental behavior studies and using ...

This contribution addresses the relation between moral values, choices, and behaviors. We build on prior research that has revealed “paradox of morality”: one hand people are highly motivated to do what is appear in eyes others. On other hand, this makes them reluctant consider shortcomings themselves self-relevant others—which considered socially costly difficult repair. Here, we highlight imp...

Lean Management is a managerial approach focused on enhancing customer value through the elimination of non-value adding steps from work processes. Lean Management is also enjoying a resurgence, largely because its ‘do more with less’ philosophy is particularly well-suited for the austere conditions of a 'Great Recession' recovery. Despite this resurgence with practitioners, however, academic r...

Conventional wisdom over the years and recent research findings have supported the importance of positivity in the workplace. However, to date, empirical analysis has not demonstrated potential added value of recently emerging positive state-like constructs such as psychological capital over the more established positive traits in predicting work attitudes and behaviors. This study of a sample ...

Mental control paradoxes—those times when we try to control a thought or behavior and the effort at control becomes counterproductive—are both common and enigmatic. Why is it so difficult to stand in a corner and refrain from thinking of a white bear—but only if we have been asked to do so [Wegner, 1989]? Why, when we try to control our thoughts and behaviors, do they so often spin out of contr...

Cyberloafing is the personal use of email and the Internet while at work. The purpose of this study is to identify the different forms of cyberloafing and their antecedents. We propose that cyberloafing has two primary forms: minor cyberloafing (e.g., sending and receiving personal email at work) and serious cyberloafing (e.g., online gambling, surfing adult oriented web sites). Additionally, w...

Operating under limited resources poses significant demands on the cognitive system. Here we demonstrate that people under time scarcity failed to detect time-saving cues as they occur in the environment (Experiment 1a). These time-saving cues, if noticed, would have saved time for the time-poor participants. Moreover, the visuospatial proximity of the time-saving cues to the focal task determi...

Reference-group effects (discovered in cross-cultural settings) occur when responses to self-report items are based not on respondents' absolute level of a construct but rather on their level relative to a salient comparison group. In this article, we examine the impact of reference-group effects on the assessment of self-reported personality and attitudes. Two studies illustrate that a referen...

Resource scarcity poses challenging demands on the human cognitive system. Budgeting with limited resources induces an attentional focus on the problem at hand. This focus enhances processing of relevant information, but it also comes with a cost. Specifically, scarcity may cause a failure to notice beneficial information that helps alleviate the condition of scarcity. In three experiments, par...