Early dialogues between parent and child constitute an important factor for the acquisition of culture and hence verbal interaction is considered to be a universal parenting system. Parenting strategies and socialization practices are strongly influenced by the cultural conception of the self, prototypically defined as the model of independence and interdependence. Our study focuses on the temp...

Sellers of almost any product or service rarely keep their prices constant through time, and frequently offer price discounts or sales. This paper investigates an explanation of sales as a way for uninformed consumers to be willing to experience the product, and learn about its fit, and where informed consumers may forget about (or change) their preferences. We investigate the role of the rate ...

This article serves as the introduction to the special issue on comparison-shopping and recommendation agents and provides a brief overview of the four papers included in the issue indicating their contributions. It also offers the guest editors’ perspectives on the future research in this field.

Attached is a formal analysis of a large sample of cartel overcharges that I believe is relevant to your consideration of remedies for naked price fixing. This research suggests that differences in methods of calculating overcharges do not have much effect on variation in the size of those calculations. That is, antitrust prosecutors may be unjustified in their concerns about the difficulties o...

The purpose of this study was to visually compare the psychological profile of 33 male wheelchair athletes who competed in track and field events, with previous results of able-bodied athletes. Based on the data gathered using the Profile of Mood States and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory the wheelchair athletes demonstrated a profile similar to that of able-bodied athletes. This finding was ...

I develop a theoretical model of price discrimination under social influence. I find that social influence gives sellers the incentive to artificially create and maintain excess demand on the market. The rationing occurs mainly at the low end of the market, and sometimes results in full rationing of the low end. Furthermore, the incidence of price discrimination under social influence is much l...

Until very recently, the emphasis in Visualization research has been on methods, their algorithmic underpinnings, and their implementation in systems. Most papers have been of the proof of concept variety: describing new ideas for attacking a visualization problem and demonstrating feasibility and quality by presenting visual and performance results from a prototype implementation. Typical publ...