Given the growing emphasis on research productivity in management schools in India, the present authors developed a composite indicator (CI) of research productivity, using the directional benefit-of-doubt (D-BOD) model, which can serve as a valuable index of research productivity in India....

Attitude similarity effects on attraction seem to be mediated sequentially by positive affect, inferred attraction, and trust. That is, the first two mediators influence each other in building trust, which is translated into attraction. However, because the mediators and attraction were measured...

Attitude similarity -- a cause of attraction -- and the partner’s trustworthiness -- a mediator -- were manipulated at two successive occasions, and trust and attraction were measured. Because the partner’s trustworthiness was known at Time 2 only, attitude similarity influenced the initial...

Effectance motivation -- a will for certainty and a feeling of being able to know and predict -- was proposed in the 1960s as the mechanism underlying the well-known attitude similarity effects on attraction (Byrne, Nelson, & Reeves, 1966). However, this motivation was largely discarded as an...

Contrary to fairness expected in modern world, people seem to treat in-group members (us) better than out-group members (them). Do people then defend the in-group members as politicians but prosecute the out-group members in a fair-but-biased manner? Given information about injustices by a male...

Given the growing emphasis on research productivity in management schools in India, the present authors developed a composite indicator (CI) of research productivity, using the directional benefit-of-doubt (D-BOD) model, which can serve as a valuable index of research productivity in India....

In the two-dimensional model of interpersonal attraction, cognitively evaluated respect for capacity of and trust in willingness to facilitate goals/needs of each other have been postulated to be necessary for relationship development. However, the extant literature shows supremacy of trust over...

The authors performed two controlled laboratory experiments jointly guided by information integration theory and social identity theory to investigate how two task-oriented diversities -- leadership and reputation -- safeguard against possible negative effects of the relations oriented diversity...

Trust has been identified as a key factor in relationship development and appreciation of group members. However, trust has not been previously considered as a reason for attitude similarity to result in attraction. Thus, in the current research, the authors investigated trust as a key component...