Identification plays a central role in models of giving to an organization. This study presents and tests a general model of giving that highlights status based and affect based drivers of identification. The model was tested using a sample of 114 alumni from 74 different colleges participated in an online survey. Identification was found to positively affect giving intentions to athletics, aca...

This paper conceptualizes perceived benefit as a combination of ecoconsciousness, social prestige, and extra services and proposes a research model for user acceptance of tablet computers. The model was tested among newspaper subscribers (n = 904) in one of the Nordic countries using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The findings suggest that attitude toward tablet devices is predicted by eco...

Humans follow the example of prestigious, high-status individuals much more readily than that of others, such as when we copy the behavior of village elders, community leaders, or celebrities. This tendency has been declared uniquely human, yet remains untested in other species. Experimental studies of animal learning have typically focused on the learning mechanism rather than on social issues...

Hartley, Trueman and Meadows [3] contribute useful evidence on whether scientists can gain prestige by writing in a manner that is difficult to read. This has been called the bafflegab theory by some. They concluded that the evidence was not strong. This comment examines some of the conclusions from Hartley, Trueman, and Meadows (HTM) and recommends directions for further research. Comments Pos...

We study the locally-defined social capital metric of Palasek (2013) for determining individuals’ prestige within an online social network. From it we derive an equivalent global measure by considering random walks over the network itself. This result inspires a novel expression quantifying the strategic desirability of a potential social connection. We show in silico that ideal social neighbor...