By investigating the personality congruence between brands and sporting events, this study explores which brands and sporting events fit together best. The results of our survey, which included 373 student-subjects, showed that the pairing of “sincerity” brands and “diligence” sporting events yielded the best brand-event personality fit and sponsorship effectiveness. Through structural-relation...

In this paper we present an extended logic programming framework that allows the modeling of dialogues between agents with different levels of sincerity and credulity. An agent is modeled by a set of extended logic programming rules, and the agent,s mental state is defined by the well-founded model of the extended logic program. Using this modeling process, an agent is able to participate in di...

Introduction The purpose of the paper is to explore the ways in which visual methods can increase the quality of qualitative information behaviour research. Methods The paper examines Tracy’s framework of eight criteria for research quality: worthy topic, rich rigour, sincerity, credibility, resonance, significant contribution, ethical issues and meaningful coherence. It explores photovoice and...

Employee silence is detrimental to organizations, and managers high in narcissism may create conditions that indirectly promote employee silence. Drawing on socio-analytic theory, three samples (Ns = 79, 125, 119), we investigated whether employees’ perceptions of manager trustworthiness mediated the relation between trait silence, this mediation was moderated by a social skill, apparent sincer...

The electoral law in France has been adapted to introduce e-voting. This voting method is however restricted to the eleven constituencies of French citizens living abroad in order to cope with the specificities of this electorate, notably its remoteness from polling stations. The legal framework as well as the technical solution was built in order to preserve the general principles applying to ...

We ask whether the absence of information about other voters’ preferences allows optimal voting to be interpreted as sincere. We start by classifying voting mechanisms as simple and complex according to the number of message types voters can use to elect alternatives. We show that while the elimination of information about other voters’ preferences allows optimal voting to be interpreted as sin...

This study compared the prosody of sarcastic and sincere attitudes in Mexican Spanish in terms of three sentence-level factors (i.e. fundamental frequency (F0) mean, F0 range, and speed of speech) and three word-level factors (i.e. stressed syllable duration, F0 movement, and stressed vowel intensity). For F0, the connection between utterance-final activity and attitude was also examined. Acous...