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The Physical, Emotional, and Autonomous Anthropomorphism of Service Chatbots

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior research on chatbot anthropomorphism has often treated it as a unidimensional construct, producing inconsistent findings regarding how human‐like design cues shape user responses. This study conceptualizes anthropomorphism as a multidimensional higher‐order perception comprising three distinct forms of anthropomorphic attribution ...
Yangjuan Hu, Fulya Acikgoz, Shubin Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Pronominal Address in German Sales Talk: Effects on the Perception of the Salesperson

open access: yesLanguages
Increasing numbers of commercial enterprises in the German-speaking countries are switching from the traditional formal Sie address for customers to the more casual du address.
Heinz L. Kretzenbacher   +1 more
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How Personal Pronouns Shape Persuasion

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Communication often involves personal pronouns. Consumers, for example, frequently say “I love this restaurant” or “you'll enjoy those shoes.” How do first‐person (e.g., I) and second‐person (e.g., you) singular pronouns shape persuasion? Are communicators correct about which ones are more effective?
Wenyan Yin, Jonah Berger, Yanliu Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Las oraciones con se en español y su representación en polaco

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016
In this paper we analyze the different syntactic-functional characteristics of se. The form se has different uses in Spanish, which, by their variety and differences with respect to Polish and, since not all of these values are represented in the same ...
Raúl Fernández Jódar
doaj  

Investigating Gender Discrimination in Job Titles: A Corpus-Based Critical Analysis

open access: yesCorporum, 2020
In Pakistan, gender discrimination is widespread due to insufficient legislation, cultural barriers and masculine interpretation of religion. The discrimination is also present atworkplace and job titles. This study attempts to,
Syed Shujaat Ali   +2 more
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Large language models unlock large text corpora in the search for data on medicinal plants and fungi

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Millions of people worldwide depend on plants and fungi for their healthcare needs, yet our understanding of which species are used medicinally—and how—remains fragmented and incomplete. As part of Kew's Plants for Health service, we developed a pipeline to mine large text corpora for information on natural products, initially focusing on the medicinal
Adam Richard‐Bollans   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

When money isn't everything: Identifying stage‐based patterns of entrepreneurial resource acquisition

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Scholars often examine how entrepreneurs' existing ties predict resource acquisition. We investigated the reverse: How does the act of pitching generate new ties with investors? Using the context of the Slow Money community, we analyzed social entrepreneurs' pitches to impact investors.
Esther Leibel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–2020

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
wiley   +1 more source

Backwards Anaphora and Backwards Ellipsis in Slovenian Multi-Clause Sentences

open access: yesSlovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies
The article discusses backwards anaphora and backwards ellipsis in Slovenian multi-clause sentences. It demonstrates their characteristics on all types of Slovenian multi-clause sentences that allow the two phenomena. It turns out that backwards anaphora
Dejan Gabrovšek
doaj   +1 more source

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