abstract aims: elderlies are one of the vulnerable groups in the society that are increasing every day. senility is associated with disability and many chronic diseases. this study was performed to predict the self-efficacy and behavioral expectations in consumption of fruits and vegetables in elderly patients with functional constipation. instrument & methods: this cross-sectional study was pe...

This study explored adjustment in people with spinal cord injury; data from four focus groups are presented. Thematic analysis revealed four themes, managing goals and expectations, comparison with others, feeling useful and acceptance, showing participants positively engaged in life, positively interpreted social comparison information and set realistic goals and expectations. These positive s...

This paper considers the creation and consumption of content on user generated content platforms, e.g., reviews, articles, chat, videos, etc. On these platforms, users’ expectations regarding the amount and timing of participation by others becomes germane to their own involvement levels. Accordingly, we develop a dynamic rational expectations equilibrium model of joint consumption and generati...

This paper considers the creation and consumption of content on user generated content (UGC) platforms, e.g., reviews, articles, chat, videos, etc. On these platforms, users’ expectations regarding the participation of others on the site become germane to their own involvement levels. Accordingly, we develop a dynamic rational expectations equilibrium model of joint consumption and generation o...

Women exposed to violence early in life are at risk of revictimization. The interpersonal schema hypothesis of revictimization proposes that revictimized women will be more likely to hold negative expectations about intimate relationships, including expectations that relationships involve harm, relative to singly or nonvictimized women. To test the interpersonal schema hypothesis, we used the i...

The seminal work of Phelps, Taylor, and Cairo developed forwardlooking models of price determination that imparted inertia to the price leveh These models incorporate expectations of future prices and excess demand by imposing constraints (typically lag-lead symmetry constrainls) that force future variables to enter the specification. In this paper, I test the empirical significance of future p...