ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry +2 more
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Waiting for a Release: The Expectation in Virtual Gaming Communities
ABSTRACT This study examines how virtual gaming communities influence and maintain player expectations before, during, and after a game's release. A mixed‐methods study was conducted, comprising a netnography followed by an experiment. First, a netnographic study was conducted over 12 months, tracking communities to understand player behavior and ...
Lucas Lopes Ferreira de Souza +4 more
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Exploring Sustainable Diet Drivers: An Extended TPB Approach to Alternative Protein Acceptance in Southern Italy. [PDF]
Civero G, Punzo G, Scarpato D.
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Mind the Gap—An Empirical Analysis of the Attitude‐Behaviour Gap in Grocery Retailing
ABSTRACT The attitude‐behaviour gap describes the mismatch between what consumers express in terms of preferences and how they actually behave when making purchase decisions. This gap is particularly relevant for organic food, where consumers often show strong positive attitudes but do not consistently buy organic products.
Kevin Ermecke +3 more
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Systemic Inertia in Addiction Care: Institutional Hesitancy and Ethical Barriers to Buprenorphine Initiation. [PDF]
Ramírez-Rivera E +3 more
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AI Hallucinations in Tourism: How Errors Impact Consumer Trust and Recommendation Acceptance
ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is quickly transforming travel planning; however, its outputs can include hallucinations, which are plausible yet false statements that can undermine user judgement. Eliminating hallucinations in GenAI technology is currently impossible.
Francisco Rejón‐Guardia +2 more
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Choosing Less Harmful Alternatives: The Ethics of Harm Reduction in Emerging Technologies. [PDF]
Turner C.
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The Xenocentric Mindset: Cultural and Personality Drivers Behind Consumer Preferences
ABSTRACT This study examines the psychological and cultural dimensions that influence consumer xenocentrism in Brazil and Iran, focusing on horizontal–vertical individualism–collectivism and the “Big Five” personality traits—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and intellect/imagination.
José I. Rojas‐Méndez +3 more
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Decoding Emotional Signatures of Ethical Ads: An Analysis of Actor‐Viewer Synchrony
ABSTRACT We examine whether ethical advertisements differ from conventional ads in their on‐screen emotional signatures and whether those signatures transfer to actor‐viewer synchrony. Study 1 analyses 138 professionally produced YouTube ads using Automated Facial Expression Recognition (AFER) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to quantify actor ...
Vik Naidoo, Nicolas Hamelin
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Repaying Kindness and Resilience: Cultural Insights for Nursing Care in Chinese Breast Cancer Recovery. [PDF]
Liu W, Liu M, Chen X.
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