Some propositions are not likely to be true overall, but if you believe them. Appealing the platitude that belief aims at truth, it has become increasingly popular defend view such epistemically rational believe. However, I argue this runs into trouble when we consider connection between what’s and practically do. conclude by discussing how rejecting bears on three other epistemological issues....

A platform might have the potential to bring enormous value its users. However, without a well-orchestrated launch strategy that coordinates sufficient number of users onto platform, this will not be realized. The theoretical literature predicts one approach coordinating take-off is influence market’s subjective focal expectations future installed base This paper reports on field experiment inv...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of self-fulfilling prophecy on the motivation and performance of national iranian gas company staffs. in this study, considering the importance of peoples’ perception and its role in motivation and consequently their performance in organization, we have tried to investigate the influence of one of these perceptual factors by using the correlat...

The possibility of sunspot equilibria and endogenous cycles due to self-fulfilling expectations are explored in a one-sector overlapping-generations model with credit market imperfection. It is shown that a strategic complementarity between agent’s optimal labor supply decisions may arise when the credit market is imperfect. Multiplicity of steady states and local indeterminacy of equilibrium c...

Book with the program. The NES2012 Proceedings has a separate ISBN number stated in a separate ISBN document. The NES conferences have a long tradition of serving as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners. The papers included in the proceedings are peerreviewed scientific and practitioners’ papers, reflecting the variety of ergonomics. The scientific papers from the research context,...

This article presents evidence in support of an interactive classroom activity that demonstrates the self-fulfilling prophecy. After a brief description of the topic, 5 volunteers from an introductory psychology course of 81 students blindly donned one of several labeled hats (i.e., intelligent, attractive, good leader, annoying, lazy). The instructor told volunteers to treat each other in acco...

This research examined whether self-verification acts as a general mediational process of self-fulfilling prophecies. The authors tested this hypothesis by examining whether self-verification processes mediated self-fulfilling prophecy effects within a different context and with a different belief and a different outcome than has been used in prior research. Results of longitudinal data obtaine...