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Emotions and consumer's adoption of innovations: an integrative review and research agenda
Get PDFThe dominant models of innovation adoption have traditionally overlooked the role of emotions, despite the relevance of this construct in consumer decision-making. To address this historical gap, a notable stream of research on emotions in innovation adoption has emerged in recent years. To enrich our understanding of the psychology of innovation adoption, this paper integrates insights from research on emotions in psychology with a systematic review of the literature on consumer emotions in innovation adoption. Drawing on well-established theories of emotions and decision-making, we derive five fundamental dimensions that help define the role of emotions in the consumer adoption of innovations. A systematic review of existing evidence within the specific field of innovation adoption summarises the existing evidence through the lens of the five dimensions. The contributions of the paper are twofold. First, the paper offers a novel perspective that provides a deeper understanding of emotions as a psychological mechanism enabling or impeding innovation adoption. Second, we set an agenda for invigorating research in this important domain
Psychological capital, future-oriented coping, and the wellbeing of secondary school teachers in Germany
Get PDFIt is essential to understand how teachers cope with stress and how this affects their wellbeing as teachers work in very demanding environments. The study employed the transactional model of stress and coping as a theoretical framework to investigate the relationship between the Psychological Capital dimensions (self-efficacy, hope, resilience, optimism), future-oriented coping (proactive, preventive coping) and work-related wellbeing (job satisfaction, work engagement). An online survey was completed by 213 secondary school teachers in Germany. Multiple hierarchical regression analyses indicated that optimism and self-efficacy were significant predictors of proactive coping, and hope predicted preventive coping. Optimism, hope, and resilience had a significant impact on job satisfaction. Furthermore, hope, optimism, and proactive coping significantly predicted work engagement. Proactive coping mediated the relationship between teachers’ self-efficacy and work engagement as well as between optimism and work engagement, whereas preventive coping was not a significant mediator. The results imply that developing PsyCap dimensions and proactive coping through interventions can be a valuable avenue to increase teacher wellbeing
The promised land of Fadak: locating religious nationalism in Shiite politics
Get PDFYāsir al-Ḥabīb is a Britain-based cleric of Kuwaiti origin who aims to establish a religious state in the Persian Gulf region. This article assesses his project as a particular form of Shiite politics, in light of Peter van der Veer’s transnational theory of religious nationalism. It first examines religious conceptions of land in Twelver Shiism to situate Fadak, an oasis on the Arabian Peninsula. Fadak has been “promised land,” pledged by the Prophet Muḥammad to his daughter Fāṭima. Ḥabīb reverts back to this sectarian trope in his legitimization of a Shiite state but reframes it in the language of religious nationalism. Three nodes in van der Veer’s rendering of religious nationalism guide the analysis: the modern union of the nation’s territorial embodiment with sacred geography, transnational migration enabling larger national identifications, and its “indigenous” crafting. They are traced in Ḥabīb’s British operations, which mobilize local “citizenship” in unbounded sectarian confrontation for the religious “nation,” while cohering paradoxically in the “freedom” discourse of his Shīrāzī Shiism. The epilogue finds heuristic value in Fadakism’s comparison with Zionism, centered on the question of assimilation – in the shape more of outward pressure in the second and elective affinity in the first
Does student loan debt structure young people’s housing tenure? Evidence from England
Get PDFThis article analyses the interaction between two policy areas affecting young people in England – housing and student funding. It is the first of its kind exploring a range of dynamics in the relationship between housing and student loan debt. Young people today are far less likely to own their home and are more likely to live with their parents than earlier generations. In parallel, higher education tuition fee increases have led to a growing share of students taking out loans and graduating with higher debt, which they will be repaying for most of their working lives. This research examines the relationship between student loans – having borrowed for higher education and attitudes towards debt – and housing tenure at age 25, using the Next Steps dataset. We find that young graduates who did not borrow for higher education are more likely to own their home and less likely to rent or live with their parents than graduates who borrowed for their studies or young people who never attended higher education. These results suggest that higher education funding policies and student loan debt play important roles in structuring young people’s housing in England
Is tax morale culturally driven?
Get PDFCitizens’ tax compliance should not only respond to the quality of formal institutions but might also be culturally driven. We contribute to this literature by investigating whether tax morale, an individual’s intrinsic non-pecuniary motivation to comply with taxes, is associated with the cultural values (following Hofstede’s typology) held by this individual. The analysis exploits four waves of the European Values Survey (1981 to 2010) across 48 countries. The cultural dimensions are constructed through a polychoric Principal Component Analysis on a set of relevant survey items consistent with Hofstede’s definitions. Ordered logit estimations suggest that while values of individualism and femininity are associated with higher individual’s tax morale, power distance and uncertainty avoidance are associated with lower tax morale. These results remain consistent as we increase the level of granularity of our investigation through within-region analyses and, subsequently, within-cohort analyses. We argue that these results inevitably enrich the emerging debate about cultural values and citizens’ compliance with formal institutions. They also indicate that societal culture as well as individual values should be considered when designing policies aiming to improve tax compliance
Psychoanalytic Judaism, Judaic Psychoanalysis
Get PDFIn this article I will briefly review some thinking on the relationship between Judaism and psychoanalysis before making the claim that there is something about Jewish ‘lived ethics’ that is directed towards interruption by otherness – and that this speaks to a progressive mode of psychoanalytic consciousness.
The article begins with a summary account of some major trends in the co-location of psychoanalysis and Judaism, relating particularly to: the origins of psychoanalysis; antisemitism directed towards, and within, psychoanalysis; links between Jewish mysticism and psychoanalysis through notions of ‘tikkun’ and reparation; hermeneutics and interpretation; and the transmission of knowledge through intense personal relationships. Psychoanalytic interpretation has also been applied to some Jewish (especially Biblical) texts. I have been arguing recently that there is something ‘barbaric’ in Judaism that is also present in psychoanalysis, and that this offers possibilities for decolonial activism and solidarity. But there are many complexities, including the tendency to understand religion in ‘Christian’ terms as a set of beliefs, rather than in Jewish terms as primarily a set of practices.
The article then offers an account of Jewishness as rooted in ambivalence and contradictory ties – and particularly as a way of being that is fundamentally interrupted by otherness. I give an example of this and try to show that what one author I draw on calls ‘the backward pull of love and accidental attachment’ is constitutive of Judaism and of psychoanalysis as well. As such, it is a powerful ethical claim to say that ‘Judaic’ psychoanalysis exists
Domain-general auditory processing explains multiple dimensions of L2 acquisition in adulthood
Get PDFThink and thin - or political? Judith N. Shklar and Avishai Margalit on betrayal
Get PDFJudith Shklar and Avishai Margalit both pay significant attention to the notion of betrayal; in doing so they pinpoint some of the most intractable problems of belonging, and in particular of political belonging, faced by human beings. Each examines the idea across multiple contexts, and is sensitive to the ambiguities of betrayal. Yet despite some profound similarities of approach, we argue that Shklar delivers a cleaner, more political and yet pared-down account of betrayal than does Margalit, and that she thereby avoids some significant problems that are evident in the latter’s approach, not least his attempt to use the language of thick and thin to differentiate relations of different types
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