Online interactivity offers the opportunity for e-sellers of developing closer and more personalized relationships with their customer base. Despite the fact that interactivity effect on consumer perceptions has been proved, the effectiveness of interactivity to encourage future purchases remains unclear. This study attempts to explain the relation among interactivity, consumer trust, and futur...

Two studies involving 26 behaviors were perforned to test four hypotheses. Between-participants and within-participants analyses of attitudes, subjective norms, behavioral intentions and actual behaviors suggested the following conclusions. First, consistent with Trafimow and Finlay (1996), the prediction of intentions from attitudes and subjective norms is better when within-participants analy...

Research on ego-depletion suggests that the ability to self-regulate one s behavior is limited: Exerting self-control on an initial task reduces performance on a subsequent task that also requires self-control. Two experiments tested whether forming implementation intentions could prevent ego-depletion and/or offset the effects of ego-depletion. Experiment 1 found that participants who formed i...

Setting Goals 129 Effective Goal Setting: The Strategy of Mental Contrasting 129 Empirical Evidence 130 Mechanisms of Mental Contrasting 132 Summary 135 Implementing Set Goals 135 The Distinction Between Goal Intentions and Implementation Intentions 135 Implementation Intentions and Solving Problems of Goal Striving 136 Summary 139 An Intervention to Facilitate Effective Goal Pursuit: Combining...

Intention preservation is an important aspect of consistency maintenance in distributed group editors. In this paper, we first introduce a classification framework for various kinds of intentions, then propose an integrated post-locking, multiversioning, and transformation scheme (LOVOT) for intention preservation. With this scheme, individual users’ compatible intentions are preserved by opera...

Economic decisions have been shown to depend on actual outcomes as well as perceived intentions. In this paper, we examine whether and how the relative importance of outcomes or intentions for economic decisions develops with age. We report the results of ultimatum games with children, teens and students. We find that children and teens react systematically to perceived intentions, like student...

Given the widespread and deep economic-social consequences of accounting fraud in micro and macro levels of society and the effectiveness of whistleblowing in their discovery and the effect of demographic characteristics on moral behavior as whistleblowing, this study aimed to examine the whistleblowing intentions for accounting fraud including account manipulation and embezzlement based on dem...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based parenting interventions are important in assisting parents to help their children develop healthy body image and eating patterns. To adequately assess the impact of parenting interventions, valid parent measures are required. The aim of this study was to develop and assess the validity and reliability of two new parent measures, the Parenting Intentions for Body image ...

Explaining or predicting the behaviour of our conspecifics requires the ability to infer the intentions that motivate it. Such inferences are assumed to rely on two types of information: (1) the sensory information conveyed by movement kinematics and (2) the observer's prior expectations--acquired from past experience or derived from prior knowledge. However, the respective contribution of thes...

Using cross-sectional data from three waves of the Youth Tobacco Policy Study, which examines the impact of the UK's Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act (TAPA) on adolescent smoking behaviour, we examined normative pathways between tobacco marketing awareness and smoking intentions. The sample comprised 1121 adolescents in Wave 2 (pre-ban), 1123 in Wave 3 (mid-ban) and 1159 in Wave 4 (post-ba...