Online businesses have been surging worldwide during the past decade, especially recent COVID-19 epidemic. However, market share of online real estate transactions is still limited, mainly due to information-asymmetry problem. In this study, we manually collect data on judicial housing auctions in China, which currently largest globally, and investigate how information disclosure facilitates tr...

OBJECTIVE Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit and congenital anomaly, yet the decision-making processes involved in disclosing hearing loss have been little studied. To address this issue, we have explored the phrases that adults with hearing loss use to disclose their hearing loss. DESIGN Since self-disclosure research has not focused on hearing loss-specific issues, we created a...

Users of online social networking communities are disclosing large amounts of personal information, putting themselves at a variety of risks. Our ongoing research investigates mechanisms for socially appropriate privacy management in online social networking communities. As a first step, we are examining the role of interface usability in current privacy settings. In this paper we report on our...

The vast majority of health-related observational studies are not prospectively registered and the advantages of registration have not been fully appreciated. Nonetheless, international standards require approval of study protocols by an independent ethics committee before the study can begin. We suggest that there is an ethical and scientific imperative to publicly preregister key information ...

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This article focuses on the empirical effects of cognitive differentiation and persuasive skills on transformational, transaction, and laissez-faire leadership. Subjects (N = 294) completed measures of independent and dependent variables. Findings confirmed prior findings, however findings some reflected differences. Cognitive differentiation was positively related to transformation leadership ...

In this position paper, we introduce a design approach and preliminary evaluation of web interface cues that might trigger privacy heuristics. We use a scenariobased design approach to explore how different scenarios (privacy contexts) and heuristics (cognitive shortcuts or biases) might affect users’ decision-making about information disclosure. Our formative study characterizes some of the th...

We show that an auctioneer (such as an auction house, or a procurement agency) should disclose historical information about winning bids from past auctions, as opposed to disclosing all bids, because this induces bidders to bid more, and raises revenues. We provide a theoretical explanation for our experimental findings based on a bias: at least some subjects may miss that winning bids are not ...