We found that parents of college students report greater goal-autonomy than their children, consistent with organismic, humanistic, and trait perspectives upon positive aging. Parents also had higher levels of positive aVect and lower levels of negative aVect than their children. In a second, retrospective test of the age-to-autonomy relationship, parents reported more autonomy now compared to ...

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...

This article is an attempt to discuss the establishment of joint use libraries as something more than just administrative collaboration. It focuses on joint use solutions between public libraries and university college libraries. Normative institutionalism is used as a theoretical framework for the discussion, which draws from studies on and experiences of the establishment of two joint use lib...

We develop and explore a new model of the economics of privacy. Individuals with private information about an immutable personal attribute (the agent’s “type”) engage in actions that have a private benefit, contribute to a public good (bad) and, if observable, may reveal the agent’s type resulting in social approval (disapproval) or increased (decreased) future trading opportunities. We conside...

Expatriate adjustment research has identified a number of challenges that expatriates experience when adjusting to the host country. These include spousal influence, cultural training/understanding, fluency in the host language and the personality or emotional readiness of the expatriate. These challenges are amplified when considered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which has large cultur...

Four studies were conducted to develop and validate a measure of individual differences in attitudes towards gossip (ATG). In Study 1, exploratory factor analyses of responses to a pool of ATG items identified two factors reflecting attitudes about gossip s Social Value (SV) and Moral Value (MV), which provided the basis for constructing a 12-item ATG scale. In Study 2, the SV and MV factors we...

Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on religion’s possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious markets are taken into account. These dimensions refer to the overall degree of religiosity, the specific impact of different religions, religious competition or...

The inclusion/exclusion model provides an integrative framework for conceptualizing the emergence of assimilation and contrast effects in evaluative judgment. The model assumes that feature-based evaluative judgments require a mental representation of the object of judgment (target) and of a standard to which the target is compared. Both representations are context-sensitive and based on the in...

Finding the most influential nodes is an important issue in social network analysis. To tackle this issue, Kempe et al. proposed the natural greedy strategy, which, although provides a good approximation, suffers from high computation cost on estimating the influence function even if adopting an efficient optimization. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective evaluation, the expectation...