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2009-07 The social economics of ethical consumption: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
No full textDepartment of Economics, Working Paper Series, no. 2009-07. 26 pages.Recent years have seen rising discussion of ethical consumption as a means of stemming global
warming, challenging unsavory business practices, and promoting other pro-social goals. This
paper first lays out a conceptual framework for understanding the spread of ethical
consumption, in which heterogeneous preferences and sensitivity to social norms feature
centrally. It then presents empirical evidence from a well-known nationally representative
survey on factors associated with tendencies to ‘buy ethically’. It is found that, ceteris
paribus, people are more likely to buy ethically when others around them do too, consistent
with a role of social norms in promoting ethical-consumption behaviors
The role of cognitive vulnerability to depression on the relationship between sleep and cognitive-emotional functioning
No full textAlthough there is extensive literature exploring the impact of poor sleep on the cognitive and emotional dysregulation commonly found in depression disorders, research has not yet examined whether an individual’s level of cognitive vulnerability to depression (CV-D) moderates this relationship in the absence of high depressive symptoms. Increased sensitivity to poor sleep could represent one pathway through which vulnerable individuals progress into emergence of clinical depression. Ninety undergraduate college students with non-clinical depression scores reported their event appraisals, affect, and cognitions for one week using daily surveys. During this time, nightly sleep was recorded using Fitbit and ActiGraph devices. Results showed that, overall, cognitive vulnerability to depression did not moderate the relationship between sleep and cognitive-emotional functioning across most assessed outcome variables; however, where significant effects existed, individuals with higher levels of CV-D showed either no change or improvement in cognitive-emotional outcomes under conditions of poor sleep, compared to the uniformly poorer outcomes reported by their peers with low CV-D. This research highlighted the importance of understanding the interaction of daily sleep with an individual’s cognitive framework in order to predict cognitive-emotional functioning, especially in environments where disrupted sleep is common.Clinical psychologyPsychologyDegree Awarded: M.A. Psychology. American Universit
Beyond 36 Inches: Conducting an Accessibility Audit
No full textA poster that was presented in the Twelfth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2020
Digitizing the Albert Jamme Ancient Arabian Lexica from the Semitics/ICOR Library
No full textA presentation that was delivered in the Twelfth Annual Symposium, "Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science" at the Catholic University of America in 2020
View of the front of Capital HealthCare Clinic
No full textThe front view of Capital HealthCare Clinic. A sign can be seen posted on the front door
The Interplay of Trust and Dependence in Collaboration Attitudes: Perspectives of Nonprofit Leaders
No full textMuch of the research in the public and nonprofit management literature on inter-organizational collaboration focuses on various macro and meso aspects of collaboration. Little is known about micro aspects such as attitudes of individuals involved in collaboration, despite “the importance of the individual in collaborative partnerships” (O’Leary & Vij, 2012, p. 514). Collaboration is initiated and run by individuals, whose decision-making and behavior, as implied by decades of social psychological research on attitude-behavior relations, can be influenced by their attitudes. Hence, to contribute to a more holistic understanding of collaboration, this dissertation brings to the nonprofit collaboration literature a social psychological perspective to explain the variation in attitudes that nonprofit leaders have toward collaboration opportunities and to explore some of the factors that drive these attitudes. After defining a collaboration attitude as “a mental evaluation with some degree of favor or disfavor of an actual or hypothetical collaboration opportunity,” the dissertation addresses two research questions. 1) What are different types of attitudes a nonprofit leader may hold toward a collaboration opportunity? 2) Why does a nonprofit leader hold a certain attitude toward a collaboration opportunity? To answer these questions, the dissertation employs an exploratory sequential mixed-methods approach, with qualitative inquiries followed by quantitative inquiries. First, it qualitatively identifies different types of collaboration attitudes expressed by the leaders of 20 U.S.-based transnational children’s charities. Based on primary and secondary interview data, the dissertation qualitatively identifies four major types of attitudes toward collaboration opportunities: Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, and Amenable. Avid means feeling enthusiastic about a collaboration opportunity. Averse means feeling resistant to a collaboration opportunity. Apprehensive means feeling compelled and yet nervous about a collaboration opportunity. Amenable means feeling receptive to but not eager for a collaboration opportunity. This 4-A typology answers the first research question. To address the second question, the dissertation looks at leaders’ perceptions of resource dependence and trust. The qualitative data suggest an interplay between perceived resource dependence and trust, resulting in a 2x2 framework that may explain whether a leader feels avid for, averse to, apprehensive about, or amenable to a collaboration opportunity. A leader who perceives strong dependence on and strong trust in an organization tends to feel avid for the idea of collaborating with that organization. A leader who perceives weak dependence on and weak trust in an organization tends to feel averse to the idea of collaborating with that organization. A leader who perceives strong dependence on but weak trust in an organization tends to feel apprehensive about the idea of collaborating with that organization. A leader who perceives weak dependence on but strong trust in an organization tends to feel amenable to the idea of collaborating with that organization. Equipped with these qualitative findings, the dissertation then quantitatively validates the roles of perceived resource dependence and trust and examines the nature of the perceived dependence-trust interplay when it comes to explaining a leader’s collaborative intention—the conative component of collaboration attitudes. Analyzing longitudinal survey data from the leaders of 223 local nonprofits in Lebanon, the dissertation finds that perceived dependence and two forms of trust—cognitive trust and affective trust—may all significantly and separately strengthen a nonprofit leader’s intention to collaborate with the local government. Moreover, mediation analysis indicates that cognitive trust and affective trust might explain a significant portion of perceived dependence’s positive effect on collaborative intentions. Finally, while perceived dependence and cognitive trust do not significantly interact, moderation analysis suggests a significant negative interaction between perceived dependence and affective trust. In other words, while the effect on collaborative intentions of perceived dependence does not seem to rely on the level of cognitive trust or vice versa, perceived dependence appears to exert a stronger effect on collaborative intentions when affective trust is low and vice versa. The dissertation contributes to management theory and practice by introducing the concept of collaboration attitudes, capturing in a typology the variation in collaboration attitudes among organizational leaders, and elucidating how the interplay between perceived resource dependence and trust may influence organizational leaders’ attitudes toward inter-organizational collaboration opportunities.Public administrationAttitudes, Collaboration, Dependence, Nonprofit, TrustPublic Administration and PolicyDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Public Administration and Policy. American Universit
Closed sign on the door of Petworth Neighborhood Library
No full textClosed sign on the door of Petworth Neighborhood Library. The sign reads 'All DC Public Library locations will be closed Monday, March 16 - Tuesday, March 31/ The book drops will remain locked. Due dates for material have been extended to April 13.
Sidewalk chalk art
No full textSidewalk chalk art, featuring pictures of flowers. The written phrases, 'Stay home, save lives' and 'It's OK to not be OK' are visible on the right-hand side
Police vans and police on bicycles
No full textPolice vans and police on bicycles near the Tidal Basin
Kerri Dorsey wearing a mask
No full textSelfie of a person in an N95 mask waiting for a SARS-CoV-2 test at the GW Medical Associates