This study examines the consumers’ intention to purchase products online using the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2) as a basic model. The proposed model is integrated with perceived trust as a mediating variable to understand the influence of the core constructs of the UTAUT2 model such as performance expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions o...

With the rapid development of Internet, more and more people got medical information through Medical and Health Website. However, Medical and Health Website is still in infancy, its social influence is not significant, and this new Internet technology has not been widely accepted in our country. Most scholars mainly concentrate on technology and management institution when researching the Medic...

G. Oettingen Psychology Department, New York University, 6 Washington Place, 10003 New York, NY, USA e-mail: [email protected] present reality can be used as a self-regulation strategy leading to increased or decreased energization, depending on people‘s expectations of realizing the desired future. Such selective effort mobilization assures that people mobilize enough resources when r...

When leaders perform solitary tasks, do they self-regulate to maximize their effort, or do they reduce effort and conserve their resources? Our model suggests that power motivates self-regulation toward effective performance—unless the task is perceived as unworthy of leaders. Our 1st studies showed that power improves self-regulation and performance, even when resources for self-regulation are...