Social broadcasting sites have grown from an information diffusion channel to a public medium that facilitates public conversations of charitable social movements. Two mechanisms foster user participation in charitable social movements: content creation and content sharing. Users can create original content to express their attitude of giving and promote their most valued nonprofit organizations, enriching the depth of the conversation. They can also share others’ content to expedite the diffusion of high-quality content, expanding the breadth of the discussion. This paper investigates the impact of reciprocal and nonreciprocal followees (i.e., a followee is an account to which other users subscribe) on followers’ decisions to create and share content. Analyzing the charitable movement of Giving Tuesday on Twitter, we find that original charitable content creation is prompted by reciprocal followees’ participation but not nonreciprocal followees’ participation in this movement. We also find that charitable content sharing is evoked by both reciprocal and nonreciprocal followees, with nonreciprocal followees having a greater impact. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.
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Social networking applications have emerged as potential new tools for enhancing second language vocabulary learning. The current study explores the development of academic vocabulary knowledge of English as a foreign language (EFL) students using WhatsApp compared to the traditional method of vocabulary instruction. It also aims at investigating students’ perceptions about the use WhatsApp in learning vocabulary. Forty Arab EFL students at the elementary level enrolled at a public university in the Arabian Gulf region participated in the study. Twenty one participants belonging to the same class were randomly assigned to the experimental group. They completed and submitted their vocabulary assignments which consisted of looking up the meanings of new words in a dictionary and building a sentence using each word and submitting their sentences via WhatsApp. Nineteen students from another class were assigned to the control group. They had to submit the same homework assignment using the paper and pencil method. Data were collected using pretest-posttest design. Results of t-test scores indicated that WhatsApp group significantly outperformed the traditional group on a vocabulary test. Furthermore, results of a questionnaire that gauged participants’ perception of the use of WhatsApp in learning vocabulary show that generally participants have positive attitudes towards learning new vocabulary items via WhatsApp. Implications for teaching and future research are discussed.
{"title":"The Impact of Whatsapp on EFL Students' Vocabulary Learning","authors":"Elias Bensalem, Arab World English Journal","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3150707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3150707","url":null,"abstract":"Social networking applications have emerged as potential new tools for enhancing second language vocabulary learning. The current study explores the development of academic vocabulary knowledge of English as a foreign language (EFL) students using WhatsApp compared to the traditional method of vocabulary instruction. It also aims at investigating students’ perceptions about the use WhatsApp in learning vocabulary. Forty Arab EFL students at the elementary level enrolled at a public university in the Arabian Gulf region participated in the study. Twenty one participants belonging to the same class were randomly assigned to the experimental group. They completed and submitted their vocabulary assignments which consisted of looking up the meanings of new words in a dictionary and building a sentence using each word and submitting their sentences via WhatsApp. Nineteen students from another class were assigned to the control group. They had to submit the same homework assignment using the paper and pencil method. Data were collected using pretest-posttest design. Results of t-test scores indicated that WhatsApp group significantly outperformed the traditional group on a vocabulary test. Furthermore, results of a questionnaire that gauged participants’ perception of the use of WhatsApp in learning vocabulary show that generally participants have positive attitudes towards learning new vocabulary items via WhatsApp. Implications for teaching and future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"464 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115868910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACTThis paper argues that although moral intuitions are insufficient for making judgments on new technological innovations, they maintain great utility for informing responsible innovation. To...
{"title":"The Moral Psychology of Value Sensitive Design: The Methodological Issues of Moral Intuitions for Responsible Innovation","authors":"Steven Umbrello","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3141471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3141471","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper argues that although moral intuitions are insufficient for making judgments on new technological innovations, they maintain great utility for informing responsible innovation. To...","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114155523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design thinking has been a growing topic over the past years in management literature. The novelty brought by this approach to managing innovation processes is not simply due to an enriched set of phases and principles, but it rests on the way innovation opportunities are framed through design. We suggest that the design thinking approach helps to deal with an inner and deeper level of each innovation process, that is the conceptual one. Counterintuitively, we argue, that this process of conceptual innovation starts much earlier than the Oconcept generation phaseO already enucleated within the design thinking process. Drawing on most recent contributions on the cognitive nature of innovation processes, the paper aims at investigating the conceptual innovation mechanisms that are at play in design thinking dynamics. Through a multiple case study of three iconic design innovations in Italy, that revolutionized the way a scooter, a moka or a shop was conceived, and gave rise to a new generation of products and concept shops, we have identified the three phases of the design thinking in each innovation process and detected the mechanisms of conceptual innovation operating in each of them.
{"title":"Cognition in Design Management. At the Intersection of Conceptual Innovation and Design Thinking","authors":"Anna Comacchio, Elena Bruni","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3050800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3050800","url":null,"abstract":"Design thinking has been a growing topic over the past years in management literature. The novelty brought by this approach to managing innovation processes is not simply due to an enriched set of phases and principles, but it rests on the way innovation opportunities are framed through design. We suggest that the design thinking approach helps to deal with an inner and deeper level of each innovation process, that is the conceptual one. Counterintuitively, we argue, that this process of conceptual innovation starts much earlier than the Oconcept generation phaseO already enucleated within the design thinking process. Drawing on most recent contributions on the cognitive nature of innovation processes, the paper aims at investigating the conceptual innovation mechanisms that are at play in design thinking dynamics. Through a multiple case study of three iconic design innovations in Italy, that revolutionized the way a scooter, a moka or a shop was conceived, and gave rise to a new generation of products and concept shops, we have identified the three phases of the design thinking in each innovation process and detected the mechanisms of conceptual innovation operating in each of them.","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117256279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We study how reference dependence and loss aversion motivate highly experienced agents, professional basketball players. Loss aversion predicts losing motivates if the reference point is fixed and losing discourages if it adjusts quickly. We find a "losing motivates effect" so large that an average team scores like a league leader when trailing by ten points. Optical tracking of players' movements shows this effect comes through differential exertion of effort. Betting spreads and lagged score margin show that expectations do not influence the reference point, which is stable around zero, far less malleable than previously found in less experienced agents.
{"title":"Loss Aversion Around a Fixed Reference Point in Highly Experienced Agents","authors":"Matt Goldman, Justin M. Rao","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2782110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2782110","url":null,"abstract":"We study how reference dependence and loss aversion motivate highly experienced agents, professional basketball players. Loss aversion predicts losing motivates if the reference point is fixed and losing discourages if it adjusts quickly. We find a \"losing motivates effect\" so large that an average team scores like a league leader when trailing by ten points. Optical tracking of players' movements shows this effect comes through differential exertion of effort. Betting spreads and lagged score margin show that expectations do not influence the reference point, which is stable around zero, far less malleable than previously found in less experienced agents.","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127330697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-23DOI: 10.1504/IJIEI.2017.10004955
Shailendra Kumar, Faisal Talib
The aim of this paper is to understand the dynamics between various psychological and design attributes and to develop a model for it that helps in designing innovative products. On the basis of published literature and survey of experts' opinion, the paper identifies 16 attributes consisting of ten psychological and six design attributes that affect the performance of the innovative product design. This research utilises interpretive structural modelling (ISM) methodology to develop a hierarchy-based model and to understand the contextual relationships among the attributes of innovative products design. The finding shows that there exists a group of attributes having a high-driving power and low dependence requiring maximum attention and of strategic importance, they are: 'self direction' and 'achievement' while another group consists of those attributes viz. 'innovative product' and 'cost' which have high dependence and are the resultant actions. The ISM approach applied in this research is useful in understanding the dynamics between various psychological and design attributes as well as performance of designers in the context of engineering design activity. The paper spotlights the huge role of psychology in engineering design, especially in the design of innovative and competitive mechanical products and is equally useful for the human resource and management professionals/researchers.
{"title":"Modelling the Psychological and Design Attributes of Innovative Product Using Interpretive Structural Modelling","authors":"Shailendra Kumar, Faisal Talib","doi":"10.1504/IJIEI.2017.10004955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIEI.2017.10004955","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to understand the dynamics between various psychological and design attributes and to develop a model for it that helps in designing innovative products. On the basis of published literature and survey of experts' opinion, the paper identifies 16 attributes consisting of ten psychological and six design attributes that affect the performance of the innovative product design. This research utilises interpretive structural modelling (ISM) methodology to develop a hierarchy-based model and to understand the contextual relationships among the attributes of innovative products design. The finding shows that there exists a group of attributes having a high-driving power and low dependence requiring maximum attention and of strategic importance, they are: 'self direction' and 'achievement' while another group consists of those attributes viz. 'innovative product' and 'cost' which have high dependence and are the resultant actions. The ISM approach applied in this research is useful in understanding the dynamics between various psychological and design attributes as well as performance of designers in the context of engineering design activity. The paper spotlights the huge role of psychology in engineering design, especially in the design of innovative and competitive mechanical products and is equally useful for the human resource and management professionals/researchers.","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128611774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup bootcamp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality of an innovator (openness to experience, capturing creativity) and the personalities of her randomly assigned conversational peers (extroversion, measuring willingness to share information) affects the innovator's ideas. We find that open innovators who spoke with extroverted peers generated significantly better ideas than others at the bootcamp. However, closed individuals produced mediocre ideas regardless with who they spoke, suggesting limited benefits of conversations for these people. More surprisingly, open individuals, who are believed to be inherently creative, produced worse ideas after they spoke with introverted peers, suggesting individual creativity's dependence on external information. Our study demonstrates the importance of considering the traits of both innovators and their conversational peers in predicting when conversations will lead to better ideas.
{"title":"Conversational Peers and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment","authors":"Sharique Hasan, Rembrand Koning","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2964214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2964214","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup bootcamp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality of an innovator (openness to experience, capturing creativity) and the personalities of her randomly assigned conversational peers (extroversion, measuring willingness to share information) affects the innovator's ideas. We find that open innovators who spoke with extroverted peers generated significantly better ideas than others at the bootcamp. However, closed individuals produced mediocre ideas regardless with who they spoke, suggesting limited benefits of conversations for these people. More surprisingly, open individuals, who are believed to be inherently creative, produced worse ideas after they spoke with introverted peers, suggesting individual creativity's dependence on external information. Our study demonstrates the importance of considering the traits of both innovators and their conversational peers in predicting when conversations will lead to better ideas.","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124806958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The continuous and rapid economic interdependence of countries due to globalization has created a competitive environment which demands employees to demonstrate innovative behavior and perform beyond expectation. This has opened new vistas for developing nations to become service provider with equal footage to developed world. However technological advances and competition demands continuous up gradation but at the same time in this chaotic situation managing emotions is equally important to remain competitive at the individual level. According to management guru Alfred Toffler, we are living in "an age of uncertainty", and thus we require being more emotionally intelligent. This paper attempts to demonstrate that emotional intelligence has positive impact on decision making. Emotional intelligence is a innovative variable in decision making.
{"title":"Role of Emotional Intelligence in Decision Making","authors":"R. Chauhan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2797345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2797345","url":null,"abstract":"The continuous and rapid economic interdependence of countries due to globalization has created a competitive environment which demands employees to demonstrate innovative behavior and perform beyond expectation. This has opened new vistas for developing nations to become service provider with equal footage to developed world. However technological advances and competition demands continuous up gradation but at the same time in this chaotic situation managing emotions is equally important to remain competitive at the individual level. According to management guru Alfred Toffler, we are living in \"an age of uncertainty\", and thus we require being more emotionally intelligent. This paper attempts to demonstrate that emotional intelligence has positive impact on decision making. Emotional intelligence is a innovative variable in decision making.","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133496957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alberto Martín-Martín, E. Orduña-Malea, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar
Academic profiling services are a pervasive feature of scholarly life. Alberto Martin-Martin, Enrique Orduna-Malea and Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar discuss the advantages and disadvantages of major profile platforms and look at the role of ego in how these services are built and used. Scholars validate these services by using them and should be aware that the portraits shown in these platforms depend to a great extent on the characteristics of the “mirrors” themselves.
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Asking students to raise their hands is a time-honored feedback mechanism in education. Hand raising allows the teacher to assess to what extent a concept has been understood, or to see where the class stands on a particular issue, and then to proceed with the lesson accordingly. For many types of questions, as the evidence here demonstrates, the tally from a public show of hands misrepresents the true knowledge or preferences of the class. The biases are predictable and systematic. Specifically, students raising their hands tend to herd and vote with the majority answer. Beyond impeding the teacher's ability to assess her class, such herding threatens to diminish learning by limiting the level to which a student engages with the questions posed by the teacher.
{"title":"Getting an Honest Answer: Clickers in the Classroom","authors":"D. Levy, Joshua Yardley, R. Zeckhauser","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2695074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2695074","url":null,"abstract":"Asking students to raise their hands is a time-honored feedback mechanism in education. Hand raising allows the teacher to assess to what extent a concept has been understood, or to see where the class stands on a particular issue, and then to proceed with the lesson accordingly. For many types of questions, as the evidence here demonstrates, the tally from a public show of hands misrepresents the true knowledge or preferences of the class. The biases are predictable and systematic. Specifically, students raising their hands tend to herd and vote with the majority answer. Beyond impeding the teacher's ability to assess her class, such herding threatens to diminish learning by limiting the level to which a student engages with the questions posed by the teacher.","PeriodicalId":276560,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Innovation eJournal","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115412213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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