The ethical decision-making process begins when an individual recognizes an ethical dilemma. Subsequently, the individual makes a judgment and forms behavioral intentions, which are thought to be predictive of actual behavior. This process is affected by individual, situational and issue-contingent factors. Our study examines the effect of four issue contingencies on marketers’ ethical decision...

Accurate metaphor detection remains an open challenge. In this paper, we explore a new type of clue for disambiguating terms that may be used metaphorically or literally in an online medical support community. In particular, we investigate the influence of situational factors on propensity to employ the metaphorical sense of words when they can be used to illustrate the emotion behind the exper...

This paper investigates the influence of situational factors on the impulse buying behavior using a Mehrabian and Russell's (1974) framework (Stimulus & response model). The results suggest that a consumer's emotions can be a mediating factor in the impulse purchase process. In this study, we identify and explore how situational factors and emotional states may influence various dimensions of i...

A framework is presented to better characterize the role of individual differences in information processing style and their interplay with contextual factors in determining decision making quality. In Experiment 1, we show that individual differences in information processing style are flexible and can be modified by situational factors. Specifically, a situational manipulation that induced an...

Relevance, as shown by various cognitive and experimental studies, depends on a number of situational factors other than topicality. Formal IR models, on the other hand, only consider relevance from a topicality point of view. There is an urgent need of appropriate models which are able to consider relevance in a broader context. This paper is an attempt to find a theoretical tool suitable to t...

The social networking site (SNS) acts as a gateway through which online networking connections are made possible. Therefore, a user must be willing to provide his or her information to the SNS in order for others to find and “befriend” him or her and vice versa. Results from an online survey was used to test a trust-risk model of information disclosure in which two dispositional factors (Intern...

In renewable power generation doubly fed induction generators (DFIG) are used, in which the stator of the generator is directly connected to mains, while the converter for the rotor is rated only for slip power. Due to the interaction of rotor and stator windings in a DFIG, the high-frequency harmonics caused by the pulsed output of rotor power converters are transmitted into the stator current...

The effect of situational factors is largely ignored by current studies on information privacy. This paper theorized and empirically tested how an individual’s decision-making on information disclosure is driven by competing situational benefits and risk factors. The results of this study indicate that, in the context of an e-commerce transaction with an unfamiliar vendor, information disclosur...

Recent research has shown that shame activates both a restore and a protect motive (De Hooge, Zeelenberg, & Breugelmans, 2010), explaining the hitherto unexpected finding that shame can lead to both approach and avoidance behaviours. In the present article we show a clear difference in priority and development of restore and protect motives over time. Our experiment reveals that shame mainly mo...

Recently, much research has been performed to guarantee viewer’s safety in watching stereoscopic 3D videos. Most of them focused on individual content factors causing viewer discomfort. This paper extends the kinds of content factors, and focuses more on the composite, rather than individual, factors. To analyze them, a subjective test for discomfort is performed for four stereoscopic 3D videos...