From the perspective of live commerce consumers in South Korea, this study aimed to investigate the changes in consumer interest since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To this end, a consumer perception survey on live commerce was conducted. Further, this study...

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...

When people coordinate in one-shot, pure coordination games they rely on existing concepts of salience. In an experiment with pure coordination games, concepts of salience emerged when players were given a set of different but related coordination problems with randomly generated labels. The...

Spending time in a forest benefits human health and well-being. Based on the forest spatial types (forest interior and forest edge spaces), landscape elements (architecture, water and roads) and forest stands (coniferous, broadleaf and bamboo forests), this study used the Short-version Revised...

The nature of learning processes as well as evolutionary considerations suggest that aesthetic judgement is of central importance in the formation of custom. Learning and extrapolation rely on evaluations of non-instrumental features like simplicity, analogy, straightforwardness, and clarity....

Beauty has been used as a fast and frugal heuristic, and therefore an important determinant of choice, as highlighted in research by Hamermesh. In a world of asymmetric information, beauty represents a proxy for objective characteristics or an object of desire, according to an individual's...

Beauty has been used as a fast and frugal heuristic, and therefore an important determinant of choice, as highlighted in research by Hamermesh. In a world of asymmetric information, beauty represents a proxy for objective characteristics or an object of desire, according to an individual's...

The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program - the "Beautiful Serbia" program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and Montenegro - on measures of subjective well-being approximating individual welfare. According to...

Destination Design -- Designtheoretische Zugänge für die nachhaltige Gestaltung von Destinationen -- Design Thinking als transdisziplinärer Ansatz? - Einige philosophische Bemerkungen zu Destination Design -- Transition Design im Rahmen eines Reallabor-Projektes -- Designed experiences in...

Almost no one thinks the government should decide what counts as art or what has aesthetic value. But the government often does so, and often, it should. State actors — from judges and legislators down to customs officials and members of local zoning boards — make aesthetic judgments every...

The study made aesthetic judgments on four select newspaper advertisements employing the visual analysis approach and hedging it on subjectivity and universal validity planks of Kant's theory. The ads were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using a modification of the Likert scale which...

This paper talks about why the brick and mortar model of business was dominant in the world for so long and why in this post modern and global era some customers prefer to stick to the traditional brick and mortar business model while the others have shifted to the e-commerce model of business....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature in behavioral finance by investigating the role played by company's investor relations website/webpage in inducing the individual investor's intention to invest in the company. The study investigates the role of...

This article posits that the Indian ‘aesthetic sports' industry which exists outside the mainstream competitive sports industry such as cricket, hockey and football is a potential ‘soft power' which can leverage India's otherwise dwindling standing in the international sporting arena. This...

Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation--both in the time series and in the cross- section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...

For centuries, wealthy individuals and institutions have collected and consumed art for aesthetic pleasure. While anecdotal evidence suggests that some artworks have appreciated in value over time, few studies have documented investment returns in art systematically. In this article, we...

The art market in historical perspective -- The art sector in China : traditional, Maoist and globalized periods -- Main features of the art market : what is art? how to value it? how art trade is organized? -- Recessions, financial crises and war : impact on the art sector -- How the super-rich...