This study aims to analyze the impact of perceived price, experience quality, authenticity, prior knowledge, and social influence on electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) revisit intention at Batavia Jakarta Heritage, with value serving as mediating variables. Heritage is a tourism destination located in old town Jakarta, known for its cultural heritage buildings that have been adaptively reused sinc...

Chatbots with personality have been shown to affect engagement and user subjective satisfaction. Yet, the design of most chatbots focuses on functionality accuracy rather than an interpersonal communication style. Existing studies personality-imbued mostly assessed effect chatbot preference However, influence behavioral qualities, such as users’ trust, engagement, perceived authenticity chatbot...

Possessing power contributes to high self-esteem, but how power enhances self-esteem is still unknown. As power is associated with both self-oriented goals and social-responsibility goals, we proposed that power predicts self-esteem through two positive personal and interpersonal results: authenticity and relationship satisfaction. Three studies were carried out with a total of 505 Chinese part...

We examined the role of culture in both trait and state authenticity, asking whether the search for and experience of the “true self” is a uniquely Western phenomenon or is relevant crossculturally. We tested participants from the United States, China, India, and Singapore. U.S. participants reported higher average levels of trait authenticity than those from Eastern cultures (i.e., China, Indi...

While shaping aesthetic judgment and choice, socially constructed authenticity takes on some very different meanings among observers, consumers, producers and critics. Using a theoretical framework positing four distinct meanings of socially constructed authenticity-type, moral, craft, and idiosyncratic-we aim to document empirically the unique appeal of each type. We develop predictions about ...

the present article arises from a three-year cross sectional investigation into english language teaching (elt) in secondary schools in iran and the role of communicative pedagogy within this. the study has examined the extent of communicative pedagogy within the iranian national elt curriculum, the elt programme and to some extent the english language coursebooks used in secondary schools. wha...

Loader Authenticity: The Development and Test of an Operational Measure A definition of leader authenticity was developed focusing on the leader's salience of self over role, non-manipulation of subordinates, and accepting of personal and organizational responsibility. A scale was constructcd, administered in a pilot study, analyzed and refined. Data were then collected from 42 elementary schoo...

It is sometimes argued that autonomous decision-making requires that the decision-maker's desires are authentic, i.e., "genuine," "truly her own," "not out of character," or similar. In this article, it is argued that a method to reliably determine the authenticity (or inauthenticity) of a desire cannot be developed. A taxonomy of characteristics displayed by different theories of authenticity ...