OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine perceptions of the helpfulness of treatments/interventions for depression held by elderly care recipients, to examine whether these beliefs are related to help-seeking and whether the experience of depression affects beliefs about treatment seeking, and to identify the characteristics of help-seekers. METHOD One hundred eighteen aged care recipients were s...

Preprints play an important role in scholarly conversation. This paper examines perceptions of preprints through the lens students using a simulated Google environment. Data were collected from 116 high school, community college, undergraduate, and graduate with attention toward helpfulness, credibility, identification preprints. Findings show preprint peer-reviewed cues little to no judging he...

With the growing popularity of online user-generated reviews, research has emerged to understand the mechanism of how a review is voted helpful, focusing on the central-route influences of review content and quality, yet little research has studied the roles of peripheral cues such as reviewer credibility and contextual factors. Drawing on the theories of elaboration likelihood model and source...

A critical aspect of open systems such as the Internet is the interactions amongst the component agents of the system. Often this interaction is organised around social principles, in that one agent may request the help of another, and in turn may make a commitment to assist another when requested. In this paper we investigate two measures of the social responsibility of an agent known as relia...

Employer review sites have grown popular over the last few years, with 86 percent of job seekers referring to reviews in these before applying positions. Though helpfulness is studied various contexts, it has received limited attention employee context. In an attempt solicit unbiased reviews, allow option keeping reviewer information anonymous. Besides, provide text multiple dimensions. We inve...

Many online communities present user-contributed responses such as reviews of products and answers to questions. User-provided helpfulness votes can highlight the most useful responses, but voting is a social process that can gain momentum based on the popularity of responses and the polarity of existing votes. We propose the Chinese Voting Process (CVP) which models the evolution of helpfulnes...