People can get most of their needs broadly satisfied in two ways: by close communal ties and by dealings with people in the marketplace. These modes of relating-termed communal and market-often necessitate qualitatively different motives, behaviors, and mind-sets. We reasoned that activating market mode would produce behaviors consistent with it and impair behaviors consistent with communal mod...

The problem of information overload in online review platforms has seriously hampered many customers’ ability to evaluate the quality products or businesses when making purchasing decisions. A large body literature exists that attempts predict helpfulness customer reviews and reported contradictory findings on effectiveness various approaches. Moreover, existing solutions use traditional machin...

These studies were started during the summer of 1914 and have been continued in varying degrees since that time. They were made possible by the De Laval Separator Company of New York City, which established a fund placed in the hands of the Treasurer of the College to meet the expenses incurred. The firm was desirous of knowing the truth about clarification, so far as it can be determined; acco...

Recommender systems are efficient at predicting users’ current preferences, but how preferences develop over time is still under-explored. In this work, we study the development of musical preferences. Exploring preference consistency between short-term and long-term in data from earlier studies, find that users with higher expertise have more consistent for their top-listened artists tags than...

This study investigates how students’ prior expectations of technology affect overall learning outcomes across two adaptive systems, one gamebased (iSTART-ME) and one non-game based (iSTART-Regular). The current study (n=83) is part of a larger study (n=124) intended to teach reading comprehension strategies to high school students. Results revealed that students’ prior expectations impacted le...

This paper examines the perceived effectiveness of stress debriefing by a sample of 129 Australian hospital nurses and the relationship of their perceptions to demographic variables such as qualifications and work area. The survey generally showed debriefing as helpful, but lack of helpfulness was also recognised because of time taken from personal lives and adverse group processes. Factor anal...

This paper explores effects of the emotions embedded in a seller review on its perceived helpfulness. Drawing on frameworks from the emotion and cognitive processing literatures, the authors propose that although emotional review content is subject to a well-known negativity bias, the effects of discrete emotions will vary, and that one source of this variance is perceptions of reviewers’ cogni...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To elicit detailed descriptions of adolescents' information and support needs in response to their mothers' breast cancer. DESIGN Exploratory, qualitative. SETTING Four different outpatient and inpatient oncology settings in western Canada. SAMPLE 31 adolescent children of women in five illness phases. METHODS 27 semistructured interviews and two focus groups were con...

Although longer reviews are generally considered more helpful, no research has investigated whether “the more the better” also applies to the expression of emotions. This paper explores the distinct effects of review length and emotional intensity. We propose that, in contrast to review length, the intensity of emotions has a negative effect on review helpfulness, and that this effect only appl...