This paper illuminates the nature of and processes shaping self-identity formation as Able for People Who Stutter (PWS). It responds to the question: How have adults who stuttered over their life courses created understanding of themselves as Able? Seven participants between 19 and 65 years shared life course stories of living with stuttering. Data was generated through biographical narrative l...

In this paper, we investigate the effects and implications of utilising multiple social influence strategies simultaneously to endorse a single product or call to action. In three, studies we show that combinations of social influence strategies do not increase compliance – this is contrary to commonly held beliefs and practice. Studies 1 and 2 show that combining implementations of both the co...

In Poland, invitro fertilisation technology (IVF) has been in use for over 25 years, garnering success and social approval. However, in 2007, a heated debate erupted on the moral, legal and economic aspects of IVF. A growing chorus of emphatic Catholic voices calls for IVF to be banned. This paper focuses on ‘naprotechnology’, a new actor and a fresh card in Poland’s IVF debate. This method of ...

The optimal aggregation of (expert) opinion has been a focus of much research, and there is a clear resemblance to the problem of the optimal combination of multiple items or tests (e.g. Meehl, 1999). For binary choice situations with a correct alternative, it has been shown that a weighted sum of individual choices is the optimal aggregation rule, where the weights proportional to the odds of ...

MOOCs pedagogical strategies assume that students construct their own knowledge and collaborate with their mates. Largescale learners’ interaction figures hinder both proper interpretation of learners’ needs and prompt remediation actions. To this we describe a preliminary study of a two-step collaboration analysis, which consists of inferring domain-independent indicators on students’ relation...

This paper investigated how senior management is motivated to commit to information system (IS) security. Research shows senior management participation is critical to successful IS security, but has not explained how senior managers are motivated to participate in IS security. Information systems research shows pressures external to the organization have greater influence on senior managers th...

Market mavens are consumers who are highly involved in the marketplace and represent an important source of marketplace information to other consumers. Because of their influence on other consumers across a wide range of product domains, market mavens are particularly interesting to retailers. Previous studies have clarified the behavioral tendencies of market mavens. The present study focuses ...

IS research on social virtual worlds (SVWs) has been contextually biased towards Second Life (SL). While young people constitute the largest SVW user group they do not normally use SL. We investigate the reasons for teenagers’ continuous engagement in Habbo Hotel with a multi-method approach. Grounded in the Uses & Gratifications approach and IT adoption literature, we develop a model examining...

One of the benefits of belief networks and influence diagrams is that so much knowl­ edge is captured in the graphical structure. In particular, statements of conditional irrel­ evance (or independence) can be verified in time linear in the size of the graph. To re­ solve a particular inference query or decision problem, only some of the possible states and probability distributions must be spe...