This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population. JEL-classification: D01, D03, D91, C91

Despite the significant resources organizations devote to information security policies, the policies rarely produce intended outcome. Prior research has sought to explain motivations for non-compliance and suggested approaches for motivating employees for compliance using theories largely derived from psychology. However, the socio-cognitive structures that shape employees’ perceptions of the ...

In contrast to the original investigation by William Stanley Jevons, compensations of energy savings due to improved energy efficiency are mostly analyzed by providing energy consumption or greenhouse gas emissions. In support of a sustainable resource management, this paper analyzes so-called rebound effects based on resource use. Material flows and associated expenditures by households allow ...

Socio-technical theory is half a century old. It was found by group of researchers, therapists, and consultants at the London Tavistock Clinic to assist soldiers for regaining their mental stability and health after the war. The group at Tavistock Clinic believed that treatment ideas used for healings the soldiers could be applied for enriching jobs. In line with this thinking, the Tavistock in...

Children learn language from what they hear. In dispute is what mechanisms they bring to this task. Clearly some of these mechanisms have evolved to support the human speech capacity but this leaves a wide field of possibilities open. The question I will address in my paper is whether we need to postulate an innate syntactic module that has evolved to make the learning of language structure pos...

Comparing theories to explain exercise behaviour: a socio-cognitive approach Sheau-Fen Yap a , Md. Nor Othman b & Yu-Ghee Wee c a Department of Marketing, Advertising, Retailing and Sales, Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology, 46 Wakefield Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand b Department of Marketing, Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, 50603, Ku...

This study finds that participation in extracurricular activities significantly reduces engagement in risky behaviours among Australian adolescents. However, the effects differ by activity type, gender and to some extent by socio-economic status (SES). Participation in activities other than sports and arts reduces both weekly drinking and marijuana use for both genders. Participation in arts re...

This position statement briefly outlines a perspective on the the idea of “socio-cognitive grids” from the viewpoint of research completed by the EU FET ALFEBIITE project.

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a method to decompose Income Satisf...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advocate a “social representations” approach to the study of socio-cognitive processes during information systems (IS) implementation as an alternative to the technological frames framework. Design/methodology/approach – The paper demonstrates how social representations theory can improve research outcomes by applying it to three recent studies that emp...