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Physical and social warmth
Get PDFThe concept of a warm person has played a key role in western social psychological research, particularly in how people perceive others. Williams and Bargh (2008; Study 1) found that individuals holding a cup of warm beverage perceived the individuals they faced as psychologically warmer than those who held a cup of cold beverage. In this article, we set out to replicate and extend these findings by exploring whether various factors modify the effect of physical and social warmth. Specifically, we tested three moderating variables: participants’ awareness of the purpose of the experiment, warmth of participants’ personality and the target person’s gender. We found no main effect of physical warmth, and very little evidence for any moderating effects. It is clear from this and other recent studies that the embodiment effect is not simple to replicate and, therefore, is difficult to exploit for practical purposes.publishedVersio
Algorithmic Paranoia: Gig Workers' Affective Experience of Abusive Algorithmic Management
Get PDFAmidst the rapid rise of gig economy platforms, gig workers increasingly report feelings of mistrust, anxiety, and profound fear under opaque and abusive algorithmic management. This article introduces the concept of ‘algorithmic paranoia’ to capture the negative affective experiences stemming from workers' perceptions of algorithmic management as non-transparent, arbitrary, and retaliatory. Drawing on the concept of organisational paranoia from sociology and organisation studies, we theorise how workers' adverse experiences breed mistrust and suspicion toward both human and nonhuman actors on the platform. This culminates in intense feelings of persecution and anticipations of harm, which workers strive to cope with through hypervigilance and self-protective actions aimed at pre-empting anticipated threats. Our study contributes to existing literature by emphasising the role of affect in workers' responses to algorithmic management, highlighting the self-reinforcing dynamics among perceptions of abusive management, negative affective experiences, and preventive, self-preserving actions. We base our findings on an abductive analysis of data from 53 in-depth interviews with creative freelancers on gig economy platforms and conversations from an online community forum.publishedVersio
With a little profitable help from my friends: the relational incongruence of benefiting financially from prosocially motivated favors
Get PDFIntroduction: To improve our understanding of how people engage in altruistic behavior, it is important to investigate the motives provided by help recipients and how these motives influence givers' helping behaviors. Method: In the present study we conduct three experiments (total N = 606), exploring how the financial motivation of help recipients can affect givers' helping behaviors. Results and discussion: We find that people like to help others but resent helping those motivated by immediate financial gains. Study 1 shows that the recipient of help influenced the responses of the helpers depending on whether the recipient was making a sales profit from this help or not. An influencing factor was whether the recipient could provide an excuse for making such a profit. Study 2 replicated these findings also in conditions in which other kinds of profits were applied. Study 3 confirmed the results in conditions in which helpers were informed about recipients' financial motives before deciding whether to help.publishedVersio
The Diary Method in International Management Research
Get PDFRelationships between subsidiary managers and headquarters (HQ) have been investigated through various research methods in the international management field. The diary method is an experience-based research method that helps to tap into the actions, reactions, and emotions of managers working in the international domain. To our knowledge, no study has shed light on subsidiary-headquarters relations using insights from subsidiary managers’ diaries. We introduce the diary method to international management research and present an illustrative study on subsidiary-HQ relations, based on diaries written by fourteen subsidiary managers. We note that subsidiary managers display multiple types of emotions when dealing with their corporate HQ. We discuss how the diary method can enrich international management research, and in particular studies on multi-level subsidiary-HQ relations. Based on our illustrative study, we propose guidelines for using the diary method in the international management field by providing insights into the diary study preparation, the collection of diary data, and data analysis.acceptedVersio
Strategies to Exclude: Temporariness and Return/Readmission Policies of the EU
Get PDFMigration governance, migration management and migration crises have been key themes among migration scholars and governments over the last decade. Historically, systemic political economic crises are accompanied by the scapegoating of migrants, often as a strategy to shift the focus away from political and economic decisions taken by states. The EU has been no exception, and political and social tensions around migration are arguably at an all-time high, as European governments aim to protect their interests and manage their borders amidst increasing migration pressures globally. In this paper, we will examine these three EU immigration prevention strategies, with a focus on the recently adopted Pact on Migration and Asylum. Specifically, we ask the following research question: what are the roles of temporariness and return/readmission as important EU strategies to hinder, stop, and exclude the movement of migrants to EU (and Schengen)?publishedVersio
Capitalizing on Stigma: Valuation Arbitrage in Norwegian Black Metal
Get PDFStudies of destigmatization in markets typically feature targeted actors and audiences. This paper changes the analytical perspective by exploring the role of market intermediaries. It highlights the practice of “valuation arbitrage”, employed by intermediaries to capitalize on differences between the valuation of a product in stigmatized and non-stigmatized conditions. This practice may reduce the exclusionary power of stigma by facilitating the integration of targeted actors into product or labor markets. We investigate valuation arbitrage in the context of Norwegian black metal: a heavy metal genre that became notorious in the mid-1990s for its involvement in criminal activities. The analysis is abductive in nature, as exploration of qualitative data allows to identify a pattern and formulate an expectation that is then tested with quantitative data. An event history analysis of the hazard of a first record release attests to valuation arbitrage by international record labels that signed local bands to build up international demand, reinterpreting the transgressions as a sign of authenticity.acceptedVersio
Understanding how the presence of music in advertisements influences consumer behaviour
Get PDFThis study investigated how consumer behaviour is influenced by music's emotional valence (sad vs. happy) in advertisements. Female participants (N = 134) watched the same four advertisements with either happy or sad background music. The advertisements were split into two advertising breaks which were embedded in a television programme. Participants were tested on their recognition and recall of the advertised material, as well as their intentions to buy the advertised products. As predicted, the results revealed that brand recognition was higher with sad background music in the advertisements, while buying intention was higher when the advertisements were paired with happy background music. Although overall advertisement free recall was found to be better for sad than happy music, musical valence was not found to affect product recall. The findings are discussed in terms of the power of emotions and the possible effects of brand attitudes and music congruity. Limitations and suggestions for future research are presented.publishedVersio
Aksjemarkedet som ledende indikator
Get PDFBacheloroppgave i Økonomi og administrasjon med regnskapsutdanning fra Handelshøyskolen BI, 2024I denne oppgaven studerer vi problemstillingen: «Hvor godt fungerer utviklingen på Oslo børs som en ledende indikator for den norske økonomien?»
Oppgaven er inspirert av Linn Sinnes Abrahamsens masteroppgave fra NHH i 2007. Abrahamsen studerte simultaniteten mellom aksjemarkedet og konjunkturene i Norge. Der Abrahamsen ser på både ledende og etterslepende simultanitet, ser vi kun på den ledende effekten.
For å belyse problemstillingen har vi sett nærmere på konjunkturteori for å forstå hvilke drivere som beveger økonomien. Videre har vi studert en rekke ledende indikatorer, og belyst hva en god ledende indikator er. Deretter har vi sett på hvilke egenskaper ved aksjekurser som kan gi de en ledende effekt, hvordan aksjemarkedet fungerer, og ulike modeller for hvordan aksjer prises i markedet
Den teoretiske bakgrunnen har dannet grunnlaget for våre analyser. I analysen ser vi på kvartalsvise observasjoner av henholdsvis OSEBX, BNP og fastlands BNP, for perioden 1996 til 2023. Først studerer vi tidsseriene grafisk, før vi, gjennom en korrelasjonsanalyse ser på samvariasjonen mellom variablene med ulike tidsforskyvninger.
Analysegrunnlaget leder til regresjonsanalysene som skal studere om sammenhengene er signifikante.
Ut fra regresjonene finner vi signifikante sammenhenger på at Oslo børs leder både BNP, og fastlands BNP, med ett kvartal.
Dette tyder på at det finnes en ledende sammenheng mellom aksjekursene og den norske økonomien.
Avslutningsvis ønsker vi å takke veileder Terje Synnestvedt for god veiledning under oppgaveskrivingen, samt ko-veileder David Kreiberg for veiledning under den økonometriske analysen
The Mediating Role of Need Fulfillment on the Relationship between Procedural Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Get PDFMasteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Leadership and Organizational Psychology - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2024This is a quantitative study that explores the relationship between procedural justice and organizational citizenship behavior, and whether the proposed relationship is mediated by the three psychological needs in self-determination theory: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The findings support our main hypothesis, demonstrating that procedural justice has a significant relationship with organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore, the study reveals that both autonomy and relatedness play a mediating role in these relationships. Interestingly, we found that the need for competence does not mediate this relationship. Moreover, our ambitions are for organizations to get a better understanding of the importance of procedural justice in the organizational context, and to promote justice in the workplace
Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual-based approach to belief revision
Get PDFFalse beliefs pose significant societal threats, including health risks, political polarization and even violence. In two studies (N = 884) we explored the efficacy of an individual-based approach to correcting false beliefs. We examined whether the character virtue of intellectual humility (IH)—an appreciation of one's intellectual boundaries—encourages revising one's false beliefs in response to counter-information. Our research produced encouraging but also mixed findings. Among participants who held false beliefs about the risks of vaccines (Study 1) and the 2020 US Election being rigged (Study 2), those with higher IH explored more information opposing these false beliefs. This exploration of opposing information, in turn, predicted updating away from these inaccurate health and political beliefs. IH did not directly predict updating away from false beliefs, however, suggesting that this effect—if it exists—may not be particularly powerful. Taken together, these results provide moderate support for IH as a character trait that can foster belief revision but, simultaneously, suggest that alternate pathways to combat false beliefs and misinformation may be preferred.acceptedVersio