In the last decade, social comparison feedback has been widely applied to encourage energy and water conservation. Yet, the effectiveness of this intervention varies, which partly depends on contextual factors such as the local environment and culturally-influenced personal traits. In this...

This study investigated the relationship between the five-factor model personality traits and parents' intentions to leave unequal bequests to their children. A sample of 1229 was drawn from the 2016 wave of the health and retirement study. As predicted by the study's hypotheses, the results...

This work explores the determinants of decisions by former apprentices to present product offerings similar to those of their masters. Using a quantitative study of 194 international chefs, this article argues that there is a negative association between the degree to which a master rebels...

City personality means a set of human characteristics associated with the city brand. Several studies have adopted city personality measurement scale to assess their own country personality. However, in Thailand, few studies focus on the brand personality in its city context. The objective of...

It is unclear what personality traits determine the enduring trait of professional skepticism among auditors. Examining determinants of professional skepticism may be important to the profession in recruitment, evaluation and team-building activities and ultimately as an element in the...

In explaining the prevalence of the overconfident belief that one is better than others, prior work has focused on the motive to maintain high self‐esteem, abetted by biases in attention, memory, and cognition. An additional possibility is that overconfidence enhances the person’s social...

Moral development is one of the most important events of the process of socialization in life span of an individual and it is through moral development, that an individual becomes an identifiable part of the society. Day to day human interactions and interpersonal activities involves a number of...