Embeddedness of interfirm relationships in the social structure resulting from prior partnerships engenders order in new tie formation. However, competitive incentives make firms likely to undermine the order that they achieve through the formation of interfirm relationships. We focus empirically on unplanned dissolution of joint ventures between firms competing in the same industry and examine...

Vision researchers have investigated many sources of information that assist perception. Although basic visual properties of stimuli can alter interpretation, the following 5 studies contend that complex, social information significantly influences visual perception. Study 1 employed a scrambled sentence priming procedure used to activate concepts without participants’ awareness. Studies 2, 4, ...

Consider a simple world populated with two types of individuals, those who work and create wealth (peasants) and those who steal the property of others (bandits). With bandits about, peasants need to protect their output and can do so individually or collectively. But either way protection is costly; it consumes resources and interferes with an individual’s ability to create wealth. This study ...

Although numerous studies have emphasized the role evaluations by others play for people's self-esteem, the perspective of others and the social diversity of real-life contexts have largely been ignored. In a large-scale longitudinal study, we examined the link between adolescents' self-esteem and their self- and peer-perceived popularity in socially diverse classrooms. First, we tested the com...

In this paper, we develop a framework of pro-social behaviour for understanding and explaining soccer fansÕ intentions to buy shares from their club in order to provide assistance in times of ®nancial need. Based on the theory of norms, two alternative versions of the framework are empirically tested. Our results yield support for a mediating role of personal norms in the relationship between s...

This article examines the impact of social status on two well-known effects in intergroup perception, the out-group homogeneity effect and the ethnocentrism effect. Researchers have recently argued that these effects are asymmetrical and depend on the social status of the participants. However, this conclusion is based on studies that included only two participant groups and two target groups. ...