Deontological and utilitarian moral decisions have unique communicative functions within the context of group living. Deontology more strongly communicates prosocial intentions, fostering greater perceptions of trust and desirability in general affiliative contexts. This general trustworthiness may extend to perceptions of fidelity in romantic relationships, leading to perceptions of deontologi...

This paper investigates consumers' values on attitude and brand desirability for upcycled luxury designer shirts. Consumer in the present study's context consist of terminal instrumental values. Findings show that do not strongly influence towards Burberry previous collection shirts nor leftover fabric compared to generic Instrumental Still, a stronger than Managerial strategic implications sho...

Does desire for an outcome inflate optimism? Previous experiments have produced mixed results regarding the desirability bias, with the bulk of supportive findings coming from one paradigm— the classic marked-card paradigm in which people make discrete predictions about desirable or undesirable cards being drawn from decks. We introduce a biased-guessing account for the effects from this paradi...

F or several years, there has been uncertainty about the presence of transgenes in maize landraces in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The first report of their presence in this region was that of Quist and Chapela (1, 2), who based their results on samples obtained in 2000; these findings were later called into doubt because of the methodology used. However, further studies by the Mexican governme...

The multi-dimensional nature of user experience warrants a rigorous assessment of the interactive experience in systems. User experience assessments are based on product evaluations and subsequent analysis of the collected data using quantitative and qualitative techniques. The quality of user experience assessments is dependent on the effectiveness of the techniques deployed. This paper presen...

Drugs in the same class are generally thought to be therapeutically equivalent because of similar mechanisms of action (the so-called "class effect"). However, statins differ in multiple characteristics, including liver and renal metabolism, half-life, effects on several serum lipid components, bioavailability and potency. Some are fungal derivatives, and others are synthetic compounds. The per...

In recent years, several authors have argued that the desirability of novel technologies should be assessed early, when they are still emerging. Such an ethical assessment of emerging technologies is by definition focused on an elusive object. Usually promises, expectations, and visions of the technology are taken as a starting point. As Nordmann and Rip have pointed out in a recent article, ho...

A generic problem encountered in process improvement involves simultaneous optimization of multiple responses (so-called ‘critical response/output characteristics’). These types of problems are also referred to as ‘multiple response optimization (MRO) problems’. The primary goal of any process improvement initiative is to determine the best process operating conditions that simultaneously optim...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2011.10.004 q An earlier version of this paper was presented at Industrial and Organizational Psychologists Conferenc ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: School of Psych Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Aust 8 6488 1006. E-mail address: [email protected] (P.D. D Paradigms typically employed to investigate s...

Two scenario studies investigated the impact of the investment of instrumental and noninstrumental effort on the intensity of disappointment and regret. The role of effort was investigated in the context of other determinants of disappointment and regret: the desirability of the outcome, its likelihood, and the perceived responsibility for (not) obtaining the outcome. Study 1 shows that after f...