Vol. LII (October 2015), 657–673 657 © 2015, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Lisa A. Cavanaugh is Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (e-mail: lisa. [email protected]). James R. Bettman is Burlington Industries Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, D...

Even though smiles are seen as universal facial expressions, research shows that there exist various kinds of smiles (i.e., affiliative smiles, dominant smiles). Accordingly, we suggest that there also exist various mental representations of smiles. Which representation is employed in cognition may depend on social factors, such as the smiling person's group membership: Since in-group members a...

the current study was aimed to examine the relationship between alexithymia and anxiety among male schizophrenic inpatients. the study was of descriptive and predictive nature. the sample consisted of 50 male patients in niayesh psychiatric hospital of tehran, all of whom diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia (at least 2 years). the toronto alexithymia scale and self-scaled anxiety scale were ad...

Human risky decision-making is known to be highly susceptible to profit-motivated responses elicited by the way in which options are framed. In fact, studies investigating the framing effect have shown that the choice between sure and risky options depends on how these options are presented. Interestingly, the probability of gain of the risky option has been highlighted as one of the main facto...