Similar Search Results

Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey

Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022

Most teenagers spend several hours per day on social media. We provide a large-scale investigation of the relationship between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation is positive and large for girls - higher use of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471462

Don't downsize this! : social reactions to mass dismissals on Twitter

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Chaves Ferreira, Bruno; … - 2020

We study the reactions to job destructions on Twitter. We use information on large-scale job-destruction and job-creation events announced in the United Kingdom over the period 2013-2018. We match it with data collected on Twitter regarding the number and sentiments of the tweets posted around...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306359

Civility and trust in social media

Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018

Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795226

The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches

Sabatini, Fabio - 2023

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454429

Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances

Baert, Stijn - 2015

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408193

The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes : the case of over-the-counter weight loss products

Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. -- advertising ; weight loss ; obesity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717705

The compromise effect in action : lessons from a restaurant's menu

Pinger, Pia; Ruhmer-Krell, Isabel; Schumacher, Heiner - 2016

The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field data from a specialties restaurant to investigate the existence and strength of the compromise...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449871

Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence

Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467800

Communication and coordination in a two-stage game

Bjedov, Tjaša; Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2015

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502689

The effect of communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping

Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a … helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized … cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different sorts of computer-mediated communication. The less anonymous (face …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414338

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last