Are intelligent, creative, and emotionally competent people more desirable? Evolution-based theories studies on the ideal partner suggest that they are. We aimed to assess whether verbal, numerical, spatial intelligence, creativity, intra- interpersonal emotional competence are associated with higher real-life mate appeal. In speed dates, 87 women 88 men met up 14 members of opposite sex (2188 ...

Online reviews facilitate customer brand engagement, but few studies have explored this problem from the perspective of interpersonal attraction and its psychological mechanisms in social commerce context. This paper aims to investigate effect reviewer-reader similarity (including external internal similarity) online on engagement Drawing upon categorization theory, a conceptual framework was d...

This article aims at contributing to the understanding of the trust–control nexus. The objective is to bring the discussion around the relationship between both concepts a step further by identifying common foundations, distinctive mechanisms and key implications relevant for theorybuilding and empirical research on trust and control. First, the concept of trust and related concepts are introdu...

y view on justice in regard to health is distinctive in two ways. First, I hold that the strength of our moral reasons to prevent or to mitigate particular medical conditions does not depend only on what one might call distributional factors, such as how badly off the people affected by these conditions are in absolute and relative terms, how costly prevention or treatment would be, and how muc...

machine can be interpreted together as representing a list of items. (Maier and Hovy, 1991) The next class of relations are referred to as interpersonal relations. Each relation in this class has its own specific effect on the reader. For example, to convince or motivate the reader to do something. They are, therefore, similar to Mann and Thompson’s (Mann and Thompson, 1988) presentational rela...