The vested interest construct suggests that people act in attitudinally consistent ways on important issues of high hedonic relevance. Accordingly, vested individuals should endorse policies consistent with their attitudes. Symbolic politics holds self-interest unrelated to attitude and thus of little use. Three secondary analyses of national election data assessed the predictive utility of ves...

This paper measures the effectiveness of platform endorsement and consumergenerated reputation on sellers’ demand in online service marketplace. We apply BLPstyle model to understand consumers’ heterogeneous sensitivity to platform endorsement and consumer-generated reputation with endogeneity issue handled nicely. In addition, we investigate “conform or to be cast out” policy, which is applied...

The relation between academic race stereotype endorsement and academic self-concept was examined in two studies of seventh- and eighth-grade African Americans. Based on expectancy-value theory, the authors hypothesized that academic race stereotype endorsement would be negatively related to self-perceptions. Furthermore, it was anticipated that the relation between stereotype endorsement and se...