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‘Too Close to Eat?’ Exploring Consumer Responses to Edible Packaging Through the Lens of Food Neophobia and Construal Level Theory

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid growth of packaging waste has recently intensified the search for sustainable alternatives. Edible packaging, developed from biodegradable materials safe for consumption, represents a promising innovation that combines environmental responsibility with food preservation.
Donata Tania Vergura   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence & Popular Music: SKYGGE, Flow Machines, and the Audio Uncanny Valley

open access: yesArts, 2019
This article presents an overview of the first AI-human collaborated album, Hello World, by SKYGGE, which utilizes Sony’s Flow Machines technologies.
Melissa Avdeeff
doaj   +1 more source

From Confusion to Clarity: A Multi‐Stage Process Framework for Understanding Consumer Confusion

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes consumer confusion as a multi‐stage temporal process rather than a static outcome, addressing theoretical fragmentation in existing antecedent‐consequence models. By integrating cognitive appraisal, contextual amplification, and adaptive coping within a unified framework, we explain how confusion unfolds rather than
Fatih Celik, Erdogan Koc
wiley   +1 more source

Potential Risks of Virtual Influencer Diversity in Charitable Endorsements: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highlighting diversity‐related attributes has become an increasingly prominent marketing communication strategy in virtual influencer endorsement practices. Prior research has largely focused on commercial endorsement contexts, conceptualized diversity as a homogeneous and single‐dimensional construct, and emphasized its predominantly positive
Chi‐Cheng Luan, Su Zhang, I‐Lien Li
wiley   +1 more source

Graph Neural Network‐Based Prediction of Building Energy Consumption

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
A graph neural network that encodes a multi‐zone building as a graph accurately predicts hourly cooling and heating loads across three distinct climates, outperforming Random Forest and XGBoost baselines and serving as a fast surrogate to EnergyPlus simulations for scalable building energy management.
Ali Maboudi Reveshti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partnerships for Social Cohesion and Social Impact: How Corporate‐Community Co‐Development Constitutes an Impactful HR Initiative

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizational scholars have begun to recognize the importance of social cohesion, but we know little about how it can lead to broader social impact, and even less about the role of human resource management (HRM) in these processes. To investigate this link, we examined corporate community co‐development as a particularly impactful HRM ...
Cristina B. Gibson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macaque Gaze Responses to the Primatar: A Virtual Macaque Head for Social Cognition Research

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Following the expanding use and applications of virtual reality in everyday life, realistic virtual stimuli are of increasing interest in cognitive studies.
Vanessa A. D. Wilson   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Ugliness and Distortedness: The Observers’ Perception of the "Uncanny Valley" Phenomenon in Photorealistic Computer Animated Faces

open access: yesStudia Psychologica, 2023
This study aims at investigating students' assessments when observing the photorealistic computer animations of faces, which were previously categorized as belonging to the "uncanny valley". The participants of the study included 72 students of Novi Sad
Maja Vukadinović   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emotional Valence Influences Empathic Capacity in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Previous research has identified age‐related differences in empathic abilities between adolescence and young adulthood. While cognitive empathy appears to continue to develop from adolescence and into adulthood, the developmental trajectory of affective empathy is less clear.
Alana J. Topsfield, Sarah A. Grainger
wiley   +1 more source

Small Pupils Lead to Lower Judgements of a Person’s Characteristics for Exaggerated, but Not for Realistic Pupils

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2022
Our eyes convey information about a person. The pupils may provide information regarding our emotional states when presented along with different emotional expressions.
Wee Kiat Lau   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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