In a recent article in this journal,.Tryon (1981) raises anew the issue of whether “social demand” might increase congruence between self-percepts of efficacy and behavior. Having raised the issue, Tryon surprisingly fails to cite any of the published research designed to assess what effect, if any, elements of social demand might have on the degree of relationship between self-percepts of effi...

With increasing networking and market globalization, it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand how social valuations of products or services emerge based on the interaction of consumers’ value judgments. This paper presents a description of a service market model and constructs an agent model of consumers considering a consumer’s subjective value using data obtained from a lifestyle s...

Fast and accurate judgment of whether another person is making eye contact or not is crucial for our social interaction. As affective states have been shown to influence social perceptions and judgments, we investigated the influence of observers' own affective states and trait anxiety on their eye contact judgments. In two experiments, participants were required to judge whether animated faces...

People often feel that information that was forgotten is less important than remembered information. Prior work has shown that participants assign higher importance to remembered information while undervaluing forgotten information. The current study examined two possible accounts of this finding. In three experiments, participants studied lists of words in which each word was randomly assigned...

The study investigated interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions in relation to social behaviour in a sample of 59 5-year-old, 123 7-year-old, and 130 9-year-old children. Interpretive understanding was assessed by two tasks measuring children's understanding of ambiguous situations. Moral judgments and emotion attributions were measured using two moral rule transgre...

The purpose of the current work is to examine when and how knowing collective opinion influences people’s judgments and decisions in social media environments. In particular, the present work focuses on people’s true-false judgment of statements found on websites and the likelihood of sharing these statements. The results from Experiment 1 revealed that, for false statements, collective opinion...