Search Results - subject:"Individual Differences"

Does anticipation training affect drivers' risk taking?

McKenna, F. P.; Horswill, M. S.; Alexander, J. L. - 2006

Skill and risk taking are argued to be independent and to require different remedial programs. However, it is possible to contend that skill-based training could be associated with an increase, a decrease, or no change in fisk-taking behavior. In 3 experiments, the authors examined the influence...

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Need for closure and media use and preference of youngsters

Vermeir, I.; Geuens, M. - Vlerick Business School - 2006

This study examines the explanatory power of an individual difference variable, Need for Closure (NFCL) for media use and preferences for specific media, genres and channels. Results of the study show that high and low NFCL youngsters do not differ in the amount of time spent on cognitive...

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Innovative adoption behavior: the role of traits of personality, general and domain-specific innovativeness.

Michele, Vecchione; Valentina, Russo - In: Micro & Macro Marketing (2006) 3, pp. 361-384

This study investigates the relationship between personality traits, innovativeness and innovative adoption behavior. The study examined about 180 subjects. Consumer innovativeness has been measured at a general level, as cognitive style toward innovation, and at specific level, as tendency to...

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Towards unveiling individual differences in different stages of information processing: a clustering-based approach

Hofmans, Joeri; Mullet, Etienne - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 1, pp. 455-464

procedures that can be implemented for studying, not only individual differences in integration rules, but also individual … rules that people use to integrate information when they make a judgment. Traditionally, the identification of individual … differences in these qualitatively different integration rules requires individual designs. It also requires the grouping of …

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Predicting Counterproductive Work Behavior from Guilt Proneness

Cohen, Taya; Panter, A.; Turan, Nazli - In: Journal of Business Ethics 114 (2013) 1, pp. 45-53

We investigated the relationship between guilt proneness and counterproductive work behavior (CWB) using a diverse sample of employed adults working in a variety of different industries at various levels in their organizations. CWB refers to behaviors that harm or are intended to harm...

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Characterizing Ethical Cases: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Individual Differences, Organisational Climate, and Leadership on Ethical Decision-Making

Kuntz, J.; Kuntz, J.; Elenkov, Detelin; Nabirukhina, Anna - In: Journal of Business Ethics 113 (2013) 2, pp. 317-331

The primary purpose of this study was to explore the unique impact of individual differences (e.g. gender, managerial …

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Two applications of the Points-of-View model to subject variations in sorting data

Bimler, David - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 2, pp. 775-790

In many of the social sciences it is useful to explore the “working models” or mental schemata that people use to organise items from some cognitive or perceptual domain. With an increasing number of items, versions of the Method of Sorting become important techniques for collecting data...

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Lying and team incentives

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 34 (2013) C, pp. 1-7

We investigate the influence of two popular compensation schemes on subjects’ inclination to lie by adapting an experimental setup of Fischbacher and Heusi (2008). Lying turns out to be more pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a fairly neglected...

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Explaining bullying: using theory to answer practical questions

Brotheridge, Céleste M. - In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal 19 (2013) 3/4, pp. 185-201

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build a practical understanding of the workplace bullying process through the perspective of multiple theories. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a number of questions regarding bullying in the workplace that a practitioner, described...

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Identifying the Impact of Individual Differences on the Basis of Affect Intensity Measure on Consumers Response to Advertising Appeals

Kumar, Santosh - In: KASBIT MS Thesis Series (2013)

emotional ads and (ii) to know whether the individual differences of response diminishes when they are exposed to the … journals, magazines, newspapers, thesis, books and electronic resources. This study reveals that Individual differences affect …

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