Despite our understanding that social media and online healthcare communities can help to eliminate health information asymmetry and improve patients’ self-care engagement, we have yet to understand what happens when patients have access to others’ health data and how patients’ access to...

This research examines the role of online anonymity in shaping herding behavior in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending markets. Drawing on theories from social psychology literature, we argue that a lender forms different credibility perceptions toward preceding peers per their anonymity status, and then...

Gamified challenges, one of the most popular features of online weight-loss communities, enable users to set weight-loss goals and compete with other challenge participants via leaderboards. In this paper, using the data from a leading online weight-loss community, we study the effect of...