To facilitate product selection and purchase decisions on e-commerce Web sites, the presentation of product information is very important. In this research, the authors study how disposition styles influence users’ search patterns in product comparison services of e-commerce Web sites. The results show that people use relatively more feature paths and less product paths in vertical disposition ...

Organizations use human resource management practices to change employee attitude in order enhance performance. Disposition is a form of behaviour expressed by individual over time different conditions. Individual dispositions include personality traits which explain one’s situations and are genetically determined. The aim this study was establish effect disposition on the relationship between ...

OBJECTIVE Body mass index (BMI) and obesity (BMI ≥ 30) are often derived from self-reported weight and height; psychological dispositions may bias how participants report these physical characteristics. The present research used a large national sample of US adults to examine the correspondence between reported and measured body weight and height and to test whether optimists and pessimists mis...

In his article "Silence, the Utmost in Ambiguity" Mario Perniola presents a historical perspective on the meanings and development of the term "ambiguity" from ancient Greek to the modern age. Perniola's perspective is not a review of different approaches and schools of thought; instead, he presents an alternative philosophical and aesthetic discourse he counter-poses to modern and contemporary...

OBJECTIVE To compare daytime nurse telephone triage calls received by a suburban practice with those received by a hospital-based, inner-city pediatric practice. METHODS A research assistant, listening simultaneously with triage personnel, prospectively coded all calls received by the nurse triage telephone offices in 2 pediatric practices. Calls were coded the first full, nonholiday week of ...

• Money-primed individuals see public emotional expressions as less appropriate. • Money-primed individuals show less emotional expressions themselves. • Money-primed individuals judge others' emotions to be more extreme. • Money-primed individuals avoid interacting with emotional others. • These effects disappear when emotional expressions are believed to be private. a b s t r a c t a r t i c ...

Killers of members of their own families have long fueled the archetypical imagination. Our myths, literature, and popular arts are full of such characters as Cain, Oedipus, Medea, Othello, Hamlet, and Bluebeard. In our time the murderous children of movies like "The Bad Seed" and "The Omen"; the homicidal father of "The Shining"; the killer spouses of Hitchcock's "Midnight Lace" and "The Postm...

As a feature of many chronic health problems, stigma contributes to a hidden burden of illness. Health-related stigma is typically characterized by social disqualification of individuals and populations who are identified with particular health problems. Another aspect is characterized by social disqualification targeting other features of a person's identity-such as ethnicity, sexual preferenc...

Forgivingness is the disposition to forgive interpersonal transgressions over time and across situations. There is currently no acceptable measure of forgivingness for use in testing theoretical propositions. The authors describe a five-item scenario-based scale, the Transgression Narrative Test of Forgivingness (TNTF). In five studies examining 518 university students from three disparate univ...

We present: i) an example of a Banach space of universal disposition that is not separably injective; ii) an example of a Banach space of universal disposition with respect to finite dimensional polyhedral spaces with the Separable Complementation Property; iii) a new type of space of universal disposition nonisomorphic to the previous existing ones.