Reviewer agreement and the predictors of publication judgments were investigated for first-submission manuscripts to the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin during a 3 1/2–year period (i.e., one editor’s tenure).Among the findingswere the following: Reviewers’ judgments of manuscripts were multirather than unidimensional; reviewer agreement about methodology and overall recommendation wa...

We study the effect of conspicuous consumption on social status in an online virtual world. Based on previous literature, we hypothesize that purchases of rare items can confer higher social status. We test this effect at the German Habbo Hotel, an online social network with more than 1.5 million registered users. Using propensity scoring algorithm, we separate the selection effect (e.g., more ...

In international relations, each state has historically pursued its own interests by various means. Although these have not always taken a violent form (for example, there are actors such as the empires of successive Chinese dynasties which, in their relations with neighbours, emphasized respect for emperor and prestige at expense violence, or Ottoman Empire after initial expansion phase, creat...