Beauty Isn't Always Better: How Salesperson Attractiveness Affects Consumers' Approach Behaviors
ABSTRACT This research examines how a consumer's committed romantic relationship influences their decision to approach an attractive salesperson in a retail environment. To date, the majority of research espouses the benefits of salesperson attractiveness in enhancing consumers' perceptions of the salesperson and the represented retailer.
Veronica L. Thomas +2 more
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Urban mobility and crime: causal inference using street closures as an instrumental variable. [PDF]
Vachuska K.
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Multi‐Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Police Patrol and Dispatch
ABSTRACT Police patrol units need to split their time between performing preventive patrol and being dispatched to serve emergency incidents. In the existing literature, patrol and dispatch decisions are often studied separately. We consider joint optimization of these two decisions to improve police operations efficiency and reduce response time to ...
Matthew Repasky, He Wang, Yao Xie
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Structure and dynamics mapping of illicit firearms trafficking using artificial intelligence models. [PDF]
Valdivia-Granda WA.
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Righting Past Wrongs Through Restorative Justice: Managerial Motivations for Collaboration
ABSTRACT Nonprofits are crucial to state collaborations as their embedded nature in communities allows them to gain the trust necessary to facilitate change and enhance strengths. As nonprofits collaborate with the public sector to tackle systemic challenges, understanding managerial motivations for collaboration and implications for social change is ...
Kara L. Lawrence +2 more
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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The biological burden of conflict across populations worldwide. [PDF]
Cardona JF +2 more
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The mediating role of smartphone addiction in the relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and juvenile delinquency. [PDF]
Alsawalqa RO, Al-Zawahreh HAR.
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The interaction between children and the environment: an agenda for health. [PDF]
Santos TVD, Moreira MCN.
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