Regionalstatistische Auswertungen müssen nicht zwangsläufig mit einer thematischen Karte visualisiert werden. Im Gegenteil, bei Werteverteilungen können die Schiefe und Ausreißer wichtigere Informationen sein als deren Verortung im Raum. Am Beispiel des erstmals im Zensus 2022...

Life is form, and form is the modality of life," declared the art historian H. Focillon, celebrating the various forms in our universe. This conceptual article explores business process patterns that are perceived, analyzed, and visualized as whole entities or Gestalten. Sensually understanding...

Regionalstatistische Auswertungen müssen nicht zwangsläufig mit einer thematischen Karte visualisiert werden. Im Gegenteil, bei Werteverteilungen können die Schiefe und Ausreißer wichtigere Informationen sein als deren Verortung im Raum. Am Beispiel des erstmals im Zensus 2022...

Despite their sustainable benefits, the acceptance of recycled plastic products (RPPs) is not widely embraced. Previous research has primarily concentrated on enhancing consumer acceptance of products produced from recycled materials. However, this study narrows its focus to products derived...

Aesthetics play a pivotal role in enriching the learning experience and are indispensable for fostering optimal educational environments. This study aims to identify the factors that shape aesthetic experiences within educational gaming contexts. Employing a qualitative methodology, data were...

In business as elsewhere, "ugly people" are treated worse than "pretty people." Why is this so? This article investigates the ethics of aesthetic injustice by addressing four questions: 1. What is aesthetic injustice? 2. How does aesthetic injustice play out? 3. What are the characteristics that...

Common wisdom suggests that beauty helps in the labor market. We show that two factors combine to explain away the mean beauty premium reported in the literature. First, correcting for publication bias reduces the premium by at least a third. Second, controlling for cognitive ability negates the...

Purpose This research aimed to explore the commonalities and differences in the type of information provided on corporate websites in relation to their employment brand equity. Design/methodology/approach Mixed methods of content analysis, ANOVA and regression analyses were employed to answer...

Das Produktdesign spielt eine wichtige Rolle in der Kaufentscheidung von Gütern wie Autos oder Smartphones. Um bei der Vorstellung eines Nachfolgers einer Pro-duktserie Neuheit zu symbolisieren, wird in der Praxis oft die Proportion von Desig-nelementen verändert. Trotz der Popularität von...

In diesem Buch wird der politisch-ästhetische Diskurs über öffentliche Gebäude im Berlin des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert nachgezeichnet. Mit einem interdisziplinären Ansatz werden ästhetische Merkmale der Architektur in Bezug zu politischen Aussagen und Handlungen gesetzt. In...

A large body of research suggests that better-looking people are associated with a variety of positive economic outcomes, an effect labeled the beauty premium. However, the vast majority of this evidence has been demonstrated in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)...

This study considers the extent to which architectural design is capitalised into commercial rents, with the goal of understanding whether passers-by value aesthetic features of the public realm. To this end, it uses Google Streetview data on the ornateness of London facades, and uses a town...

Vesalius wrote nothing about the aesthetics of the anatomical illustrations found in his De humani corporis fabrica (1543). There are, however, two passages in this work that offer a starting point for an investigation into the illustration’s idealised style. In discussing the body that is...

When Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, started to forge pitons (a piece of climbing equipment) in 1957, he never planned to become a businessman. All he wanted to do was produce climbing gear for his friends and himself. However, half a century later, his company Patagonia (now worth 3...

Academic publishing represents a field in which the opportunity for discrimination based on appearance should be limited since intellectual skills must play a key role. In this work, I document the beauty effect for economic scholars. Using unique data on academics who published their research...

The beauty premium in politics shows that attractive politicians are more likely to get elected to office than less attractive politicians, but little is known about whether beauty also shapes the behavior of members of parliament (MPs) once in office. We use newly collected data on the...

Purpose: Aesthetic clinics have expanded dramatically in recent years due to social media trends. This study aims to examine the antecedents of patient experience: product quality, service encounter, servicescape, outcome quality, electronic word of mouth (EWOM) on cognitive experience (CE) and...

We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children from ages 6 months through 15 years. Observers rated videos of them, obtaining measures of looks at each age. Given their family income, parents’ education, race/ethnicity...