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Modelling Critical Impeding Factors of Gamification Adoption: An ISM‐MICMAC Analysis

open access: yesGlobal Business and Organizational Excellence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gamification is a transformative technology that attracts consumers and motivates them toward desired actions through fun and engagement. Despite its growing popularity and influence on user behavior, gamification faces significant challenges in acceptance and implementation due to behavioral, technological, economic, and regulatory factors ...
Wamika Sharma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Songs for the ego: Theorizing musical self-enhancement

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
This paper outlines a theoretical account of musical self-enhancement. I claim that listening to music serves as a resource for actively manipulating affective states so that a positive self-view is maintained and a sense of optimism is provided.
Paul eElvers
doaj   +1 more source

Protective factors and critical mucosal thickness for the stability of the peri‐implant soft tissue margin over 5 years: A longitudinal cohort study

open access: yesJournal of Periodontology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Peri‐implant soft tissue dehiscence deficiencies (PSTDs) are common esthetic complications in the anterior maxilla, yet the parameters that protect the peri‐implant soft tissue margin (STM) over time remain unclear. Previous studies have identified several risk indicators, but longitudinal thresholds capable of predicting stable STM
Lorenzo Tavelli   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric Responses of Ecosystem Health to Urbanization in a Typical Karst City: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Mechanisms in Guilin, China

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban expansion can substantially reshape ecosystem structure and functioning, especially in ecologically fragile Karst landscapes. Clarifying how ecosystem health (EH) responds to urbanization and identifying the factors that drive spatial variation in EH are important for regional sustainability.
Jinlong Hu, Zhenhong Bin, Yingxue Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Land Degradation, Cultural Ecosystem Services, and Ecosystem Disservices in the Sumapaz Páramo, Colombia: An Integrated Socioecological Assessment

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the relationships among land degradation, ecosystem functioning and human well‐being is essential for conserving tropical high‐mountain ecosystems. This study examined the relationships among land degradation, Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), ecosystem disservices (EDS) and visitor perceptions at Laguna Colorados in the Sumapaz
Victor Fabian Forero Ausique   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary on: Aesthetic Experience Explained by the Affect-Space Framework by Schubert, North and Hargreaves

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2017
This commentary critically evaluates the target paper by Schubert, North and Hargreaves on the semantic structure of aesthetic experience. It places it in the context of existing research with a special emphasis on related debates in philosophy and ...
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
doaj   +1 more source

Aesthetic complexity: practice and perception in art & design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
My research investigates the aesthetics of visual complexity in the practice and perception of visual art and design. The aim is to understand visual complexity in terms of the relationship between the objective properties of images and subjective ...
Birkin, G
core  

Consumer Cultural Renaissance: Conceptualisation, Scale Development, and Validation

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As incessant globalisation leads to the pervasive erosion of traditional Asian culture by Western consumerism, a recent phenomenon has emerged that allures Asian consumers to reconnect with their traditional culture via consumption. We postulate that this behaviour is rooted in a self‐identity, consumer cultural renaissance (CCR), that has not
Richard Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A. Alison, Bachelard, “International Lexicon of Aesthetics”, Vol. 4, Milano, Mimesis, 2021.

open access: yes, 2021
Bachelard   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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