This study identifies grief management strategies that bereaved adults evaluate as more and less helpful, assesses whether the person centeredness of these strategies explains their helpfulness, and determines whether strategy helpfulness varies as a function of demographic, personality, and situational factors. Participants (105 bereaved young adults) assessed the helpfulness of 16 grief manag...

Aims and method To examine the usefulness of a cognitive-behavioural therapy-based group intervention, metacognitive training for schizophrenia (MCT), in a 'real-world' clinical setting. In total, 164 participants completed 327 questionnaires at the end of MCT group sessions; rating the perceived usefulness, helpfulness to recovery, change in knowledge and anxiety. Non-parametric statistical te...

Online review has been found to be import to online businesses. The sheer number of online reviews hinders websites users’ ability to draw useful information from previous users. Thus, a helpfulness mechanism which facilitates users to locate the most helpful reviews adds value to websites. This paper explores the helpfulness of online review from a cognitive science perspective. Drawing upon c...

Identifying peer-review helpfulness is an important task for improving the quality of feedback that students receive from their peers. As a first step towards enhancing existing peerreview systems with new functionality based on helpfulness detection, we examine whether standard product review analysis techniques also apply to our new context of peer reviews. In addition, we investigate the uti...

Effective use of online product reviews is hampered by their large variance in helpfulness. Therefore, there is a great need to better understand the determinants of review helpfulness. As one of the most studied factors, review length has been commonly assumed to have a linear relationship with review helpfulness. However, a recent study reveals a different finding, but it does not provide det...

One of the most common uses of the social networks’ capabilities is for professional, study and business purposes. The literature presents conflicting evidence as to the effectiveness of different networks for professional purposes. Therefore, our first research aim was to conduct a comparative investigation of the effectiveness and factors which influence the effectiveness of different social ...

Online product reviews are important determinants of consumers' purchase decision. Although prior research has articulated various benefits of online product reviews, there are few investigations into whether or not they are perceived as helpful by consumers. Product review helpfulness is conceptualized as a second-order formative construct, which is manifested by perceived source credibility, ...

For consumers, online product reviews have become an important source for product-related information. Furthermore, they represent a beneficial addition to online retailers’ websites. Due to the increasing amount of available product reviews, identifying the most helpful product reviews represents an important task in order to reduce information overload. Therefore, the factors influencing revi...