The impact of gifts on deposit balances and customer satisfaction was examined in a longitudinal field experiment conducted at a commercial bank. Gifts increased deposit balances, survey response rates, and customer satisfaction compared to the no-gift control. Several factors were manipulated within the gift treatment: gift type, the accompanying message, and the sequence of gift value, which ...

Research within different disciplines to gain insight of gift giving behaviour has continued for over forty years. Gifts are bestowed in celebration of key life events, a medium for nurturing personal relationships, to encourage economic exchange and to socialise children into appropriate behaviour patterns (Belk, 1979). Obligations within a community require that individuals are required to gi...

Chancenmanagement ist im Kontext von Risikomanagementliteratur eine häufig als Randthematik erwähnte Disziplin. Auch bei unterstützenden ITLösungen liegt der Fokus bisher hauptsächlich auf dem Risikomanagement. Durch die Neuerungen des „Deutschen Rechnungslegungs Standards Nr. 20 (DRS 20) Konzernlagebericht“ bezüglich der Angaben im Lagebericht des Geschäftsberichts von börsennotierten Konzerne...

The rubber hand illusion is a perceptual illusion in which a model hand is experienced as part of one's own body. In the present study we directly compared the classical illusion, based on visuotactile stimulation, with a rubber hand illusion based on active and passive movements. We examined the question of which combinations of sensory and motor cues are the most potent in inducing the illusi...

The present research examined the perceived and actual impact of exposure to conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Princess Diana. Undergraduate students rated their agreement with a number of statements about Diana’s death. They also rated their classmates’ perceived agreement with the statements. From the same undergraduate population, a second group of students read some material cont...

This research explores the alternative media ecosystem through a Twitter lens. Over a ten-month period, we collected tweets related to alternative narratives—e.g. conspiracy theories—of mass shooting events. We utilized tweeted URLs to generate a domain network, connecting domains shared by the same user, then conducted qualitative analysis to understand the nature of different domains and how ...

We introduce a variant of-search in which each node is associated with two depths rather than one. The purpose of-search is to nd strategies for each player that together establish a value for the root position. A max strategy establishes a lower bound and the min strategy establishes an upper bound. It has long been observed that forced moves should be searched more deeply. Here we make the ob...

Empirical and experimental evidence documents that money illusion is persistent and widespread. This paper incorporates money illusion into a stochastic continuous-time monetary model of endogenous growth. We model an agent’s money illusion behavior by assuming that he maximizes nonstandard utility derived from both nominal and real quantities. Money illusion affects an agent’s perception of th...

The popularization and normalization of conspiracy theories over the last decade are accompanied by concerns as irrational beliefs, on one hand; their advocates radical extremist believers other hand. Building studies emphasizing that such accounts one-sided at best, pars pro toto stigmatizations worst; we propose to study what call “ participatory culture”—the everyday, mundane online debates ...