Using expectancy-value theory, we explored whether parents' perceived expectancies, value, and costs relate to parent involvement in science math activities. We also informal learning varied based on child gender parent's report of having a science, technology, engineering, (STEM)-related career. Specifically, examined the mediating role STEM cost as well parents held STEM-related career outcom...

THIS CHAPTER IS divided into four principal sections. The first reviews several major current evolutionary psychological theories of personality. The next two cover empirical evidence for these theories in human and nonhuman animal personality research. Because little empirical research examining personality has been done within evolutionary psychology, the data go outside the evolutionary lite...

This paper presents an embedded exploratory case study of an application service provider’s (ASP) client relationships. We focus on the relationship between the vendor and the clients in the ongoing business, which we analyzed based on interviews with client representatives, a pre-interview questionnaire assessing goal achievement, service quality, and relationship quality, and an identificatio...

The remarkable growth of crowdfunding has sparked academic interest. By collecting small contributions from a large number of individuals, entrepreneurs, artists and other individuals and organizations can raise considerable amounts of money. Despite the increasing academic interest in this topic, there still appears to be a lack of understanding regarding the factors that determine individuals...


 1,2 Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Sarjanawiyata Tamansiswa Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
 ,

Although previous research has suggested a link between sexual resistance and the violation of the resisted partner’s expectations, communication scholars have yet to utilize expectancy violation theory in a sexual resistance context. As such, the current study examines the resisted individual’s perception of sexual resistance message directness and relational context in terms of three aspects ...