We examine the impact of a desire for social approval on education and occupation choice and model the endogenous determination of perceptions that influence such approval. In a two-sector overlapping generations framework, agents born with ability endowments in both occupations must choose one as their career. An agent’s choice is influenced by social approval, which depends upon the community...

This research endeavor explores four biometric technologies and their potential usage in the tourism and hospitality industry. This paper begins with a review of viable biometric technologies and continues with a discussion of their potential applications to tourism and hospitality businesses. Various tourism and hospitality scenarios in which biometrics can be used are explored. The article co...

INTRODUCTION: Perception of beauty is influenced by geographic, ethnic, cultural, and demographic factors. However, objective measurements remain the foundation for esthetic evaluations. In the quest to better define the “ideal” female buttock, this study assumes interdependence between variables such as country of residence, sex, age, occupation, and esthetic perception, yielding a waist to hi...

Background: Perception is the way something regarded/understood. It mainly created by two factors; one physiological and another psychological characteristics of human being. Thus, perception not only process that what sees with eyes it a much more complex involving too, which any person selectively assimilates gives meaning to stimuli in environment. subjective process, thatis why different pe...

It becomes possible to devise effective strategies when the banks properly understand how services are being assessed or perceived by the customers. The analysis of customer perception can give direction and focus to strategic planning. It is indeed a difficult task because quality is a critical factor to services. Customers in service industry can be made coproducers of services by inviting th...

Computing has been long considered a male domain in the US. With this perception, females may experience negative outcomes in the occupation or activities. Does this perception exist in other countries? This paper reports a study that investigated the gender perception of computing in three different countries: US, China, and India. The study involved 638 undergrad students. The study compared ...

Associations between the researcher occupation and gender, and the relation between such associations and career considerations, were examined. Study 1 revealed that students’ perception of the researcher stereotype corresponds more to their perception of the male than the female stereotype. In study 2, the more females implicitly associated the role of researcher with women, the higher they ra...

We compared effects of information about a stereotypical service provider with that about a counterstereotypical service provider on inferences about the similarity of employees within the firm and the firm’s similarity to other firms (across-brand differentiation). Our three experiments varied the provider’s gender so that it was either stereotypical or counterstereotypical for an occupation. ...