As an alternative to online labor markets, several platforms recruit unpaid online volunteers to participate in behavioral experiments that provide personalized feedback. These platforms rely on word-of-mouth sharing by previous participants for recruitment of new participants. We analyzed the impact of performance feedback provided at the end of an experiment on 81,131 participants’ sharing be...

Despite initially positive results, video feedback for social anxiety has never been shown to reduce social anxiety in a controlled experiment with diagnosed participants, and only once with undiagnosed participants. Previous studies arguably did not detect such an effect because of limited assessment of anxiety and potential moderators. We tested video feedback with cognitive preparation among...

1TowsonUniversity 2University ofGeorgia Correspondence KyongseokKim,DepartmentofMassCommunicationandCommunicationStudies, Towson University, 8000YorkRoad, Towson,MD21252. Email: [email protected] Abstract Guided by the framework of self-determination theory (SDT), this study examined the effects of external rewards on undermining customers’ intrinsic motivation to engage in a retail loyal...

Background Smoking cessation is associated with weight gain, and the risk of gain a common deterrent to quitting smoking. Thus, identification strategies for reducing post-smoking critical. Objective Conduct secondary analysis data from Fit & Quit trial determine if greater frequency self-weighing less in context smoking cessation. Methods Participants (N = 305) were randomized one three 2-mont...

a r t i c l e i n f o In two studies employing a creativity test (i.e., solving insight problems), we hypothesized and observed that mental contrasting of a desired future with present reality (Oettingen, Pak, & Schnetter, 2001) transforms positive feedback into strong performance. Participants received positive or moderate bogus feedback on their creative potential and then engaged either in m...

background : managers’ communication skills are one of the most important topics in educational sector of universities of medical sciences and may have considerable effect on faculty members and employees. this study was performed to determine the level of communication skills (verbal, listening, feedback) of the heads of department of faculties and its relation with some demographic variables....

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of self-controlled (sc) and instructor-controlled (ic) feedbacks on the acquisition of dart motor skill using videotape feedback. for this purpose, 200 female volunteer students of university of tehran participated in this research. after the questioners had been filled out, 36 individuals were randomly selected from 152 qualified p...

Video feedback (VF) with cognitive preparation (CP) has been widely integrated into cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) protocols for social anxiety disorder (SAD) due to its presumed efficacy in improving negative self-perception. However, previous experimental studies have demonstrated that improvements in negative self-perception via VF+CP do not typically facilitate anxiety reduction during ...