The purpose of this study is to examine the effects disclosing sales commissions pertaining an influencer discount code on perceived sincerity and attitude toward using code. In first study, consumers participated in a two-cell (commission disclosure: absent vs. present) between-subjects experimental design. second two by (discount level: low high) findings Study 1 demonstrate that commission d...

We analyze apologizing as part of the institutional agenda school mediation in Finland. When primary teachers intervene to mediate a dispute, children orient ritualized, expected, and recognizable action that resolves matter. Teachers build, step by step, sequence that, when preconditions are met, results parties involved dispute producing uniquely explicit apology exchange “I apologize”—“apolo...

This paper analyzes a two-alternative voting model with the distinctive feature that voters have preferences over margins of victory. We study voting contests with a finite as well as an infinite number of voters, and with and without mandatory voting. The main result of the paper is the existence and characterization of a unique equilibrium outcome in all those situations. At equilibrium, vote...

This article examines the role of culture in the local urban development process through a case study of recent proposals in Davis, California. The author argues that community cultural expectations—of environmental leadership and the preservation of local character—had an important impact on project proposals and the political campaigns that followed, including the ability of an unlikely corpo...

financial concepts and terms in conventional and Islamic banking, the impact of religion and language, and other individual variables on preferences for financial services. Data from a university graduate and undergraduate business students (n = 667) from the United Arab Emirates was used to investigate the role of financial knowledge, religion, and language on self-reported attitudes and prefe...

I present a logic programming framework extended with explicit negation that models the participation of agents in dialogues. The semantics of the framework is given by the well founded semantics of logic programs extended with explicit negation ((AP96, ADP95, Alf93]). In this framework agents are modeled by sets of extended logic programming rules representing their mental state. An agent ment...

background :effective leadership is of prime importance in any organization and it goes through changes based on accepted health promotion and behavior change theory. although there are many leadership styles, transformational leadership, which emphasizes supportive leadership behaviors, seems to be an appropriate style in many settings particularly in the health care and educational sectors wh...

INTRODUCTION • Human communication increasingly relies on technology • Text based communication (TBC) lacks communicative richness, as compared to face to communication (Harris & Paradice, 2007) • However, typographic cues may add informativeness by mimicking tone of voice in TBC (Riordan & Kreuz, 2010) • Gunraj et al. (2016) found one word response with ending period is perceived as rude/ insi...