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Differences Between Public & Private Embarrassment and (Symbolic) Coping Behavior - Direct vs. Indirect Questioning in Consumer Embarrassment
No full textPrevious research indicated that consumers experience two kinds of embarrassments. Embarrassment can either be a public or private emotion (Krishna et al., 2015). Extant studies also show that regarding public embarrassment, consumers use various coping strategies (Krishna et al., 2019). They can either employ cognitive and/or behavioral coping strategies (Krishna et al. 2019; Grace, 2007). Dong et al. (2013) revealed that consumers cope with embarrassing situations by engaging in symbolic behavior. Symbolic behavior evokes a specific concept that helps in coping with a situation. For instance, research shows that consumers choose sunglasses (a hiding product) and facial moisturizer (a face restoring product) in coping with public embarrassment. However, it is unclear how consumers cope with privately embarrassing situations. We found that consumers seem to engage in symbolic coping behavior only to a limited degree, depending on public and private embarrassment (Soliman, Frech et al. in preparation). To better understand the differences between public and private embarrassment and coping behavior, in this study we use direct and indirect questioning to investigate how consumer perceive embarrassing situations and how they (vs. a third person) will cope with the embarrassing situation
The Dark Side of Online-Dating – Dehumanization and How Humor makes us see the Human behind the Profile
No full textIn the last decades, online dating has become one of the most popular methods for singles to find potential romantic partners (Rosenfeld, Thomas, & Hausen, 2019). Previous studies have shown that mediating technologies can create distance and reduce relational closeness. Consequently, anecdotal evidence suggests that in an online-dating context, consumers dehumanize others. Dehumanization relates to a form of moral disengagement in which people deprive others of their humanness (Haslam 2006). In an online-dating context this might materialize in behaviors such as ghosting – a phenomenon in which individuals withdraw from communication with others without announcing it. Moreover, previous research has shown that dehumanization is negatively correlated with perceived romantic attraction and relationship success of potential romantic partners (Frech, Soliman, Loschelder, in prep). Simultaneously, research reveals that humor has many benefits (Warren et al. 2018). Especially, in a dating context, humor is one of the most desired qualities in others (Butzer & Kuiper 2008) and can increase attraction (McGee & Shelvin 2009). Humor might also signal intelligence (Greengross & Miller 2011) and makes individuals more likely to trust others (Gray, Parkinson & Dunbar 2015). Hence, humor might be one way to humanize others, which extant studies have not yet investigated. In the present study, we investigate the role of humor in an online-dating context and whether it can attenuate dehumanization and increase relationship success, empathy, attractiveness, and enjoyment. As research points out that different humor types might work differently, we will look at four distinct humor types (affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating; Warren et al. 2018)
Correction to: Real-World Treatment Patterns in Patients with Vitiligo in the United States
No full textCorrection to: Dermatol Ther (Heidelb) (2023) 13:2079–2091 10.1007/s13555-023-00983-3
Authors would like to update the middle name of co-author as Ahmed M. Soliman.
The original article has been corrected
Apterogyna oshaibahi Soliman & Gadallah, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Apterogyna oshaibahi</i> Soliman & Gadallah, sp. nov. <p>(Figs 23−27)</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype ♀: Egypt, Wadi Digla, Cairo [29°57'30''N, 31°20'06''E], 20.xi.2014 (leg. Ahmed M. Soliman) [CUE]. Paratype 1 ♀: Egypt, Wadi Digla, Cairo [29°57'30''N, 31°20'06''E], 5.xi.2010 (leg. Ahmed M. Soliman) [CUE].</p> <p> <b>Description</b>. FEMALE (holotype). Body length 7 mm. <i>Colour</i>. Red, except flagellum of antenna light brown; coxae and T6 reddish brown, the latter with darker longitudinal ridges; prosternum, mesepisternum, T1 laterally, T2−T5 and metasomal sterna black; mid and hind tibial spurs waxy white; eye black. <i>Pubescence.</i> Face, vertex and scape of antenna clothed with recumbent white setae (Fig. 24); clypeus, occiput and basal third of mandible with erect white setae; mesosoma, legs and metasoma clothed with long erect and fine whitish setae, denser on metasomal terga than elsewhere. T1, T2 with moderately-developed tuft of white setae apicomesally (Fig. 26); metasomal segments 3−5 with apical fringe of such setae, well-developed on T3.</p> <p> <i>Head</i>. In dorsal view 1.2 × as broad as pronotum, abruptly convergent behind eyes; in frontal view distinctly transverse, its width 1.6 × head height; vertex flattened when seen from frontal view, impunctate, strongly sloping posteriorly; face superficially sparsely and finely punctate (nearly smooth and polished); eye small, subspherical, distinctly prominent, with middle-transversal axis located above midline between free margin of clypeus and vertex; malar space as long as LED; distance between antennal tubercles as long as tubercle length; clypeus gently convex; gena with weakly developed tubercle at the level of lower ocular margin; mandible slender, edentate (Fig. 24). Scape of antenna gently convex; F1 scarcely longer than F2; F2 as long as F3. Palpal segments slender.</p> <p> <i>Mesosoma</i>. Dorsally foveate-reticulate (foveae larger on dorsal face of propodeum than elsewhere) (Fig. 25); pronotum with anterior face gently declivous and posterior margin feebly concave, longitudinally ridged laterally; propodeal posterior face gently declivous, smooth and shiny. Mesopleuron smooth anteriorly and coarsely punctate posteriorly; metapleuron longitudinally coarsely ridged. Mesosternum polished and impunctate.</p> <p> <i>Metasoma</i>. T1 widened posteriorly (pear-shaped), slightly longer than its maximal width, superficially foveate, with apicomesal setal tuft 0.7 × as wide as that on T2 (Fig. 26); T2 bell-shaped, 0.7 × as long as broad, coarsely reticulate-foveate (Fig. 26); T3 with superficial sparse punctures progressively vanishing towards posterior margin; T4, T5 narrow and puncticulate; T6 subtriangular, with longitudinal interrupted ridges, bordered laterally with sharp evenly spaced teeth progressively reduced in size distally (Fig. 27). S1 smooth posteriorly, with superficial sparse punctures anteriorly; S2 and S3 sparsely punctate, punctures contiguous laterally; S4, S5 smooth; S1−S5 with a row of sparse punctures along their apical margin; S6 smooth except for few punctures apicolaterally.</p> <p>MALE unknown.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Egypt: Wadi Digla.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Apterogyna oshaibahi</i> is nearest to <i>A. olivieri</i> except for the following: body with scattered setae (while dense in <i>A. olivieri</i> especially on head); mesosomal dorsum with scattered erect setae (with dense recumbent setae intermixed with erect ones in <i>A. olivieri</i>); setal tufts on T1 and T2 moderately-developed (well-developed in <i>A. olivieri</i>). A new species also resembles <i>A. mateui</i> but differ in the following: metasomal T2 coarsely reticulatefoveate, T3 with scattered superficial punctures (Fig. 26) (T2–T3 with oblong punctures and few ridges in between in <i>A. mateui</i>).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> This species is named in honour of the late Prof. Alaa Din A. Oshaibah professor of the first author).</p>Published as part of <i>Soliman, Ahmed M., Gadallah, Neveen S., Al-Shahat, Ahmed M. & Pagliano, G., 2015, The genus Apterogyna Latreille, 1809 in Egypt, with three new species (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Apterogyninae), pp. 209-220 in Zootaxa 3905 (2)</i> on pages 215-218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.3, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/241302">http://zenodo.org/record/241302</a>
Public vs. Private Embarrassment & Symbolic Coping – Hiding – Restoring & Cleaning Face To Deal with Embarrassing situations?
No full textConsumer cope with embarrassing situations in a variety of ways. They either can employ cognitive and/or behavioral coping strategies (Krishna et al. 2019). In the past, Dong et al. (2013) revealed that consumers cope with embarrassing situations by engaging in symbolic behavior (behavior that evokes a specific concept that helps in coping with a situation). Interestingly, consumers choose sunglasses (face-hiding) and facial moisturizer (face-restoring) in dealing with embarrassing situations. Krishna et al. (2015) show that even though consumer embarrassment is often considered to be a public affair, it can also have a private dimension. What is unknown, however, is how consumers engage in symbolic coping behavior differently based on whether the embarrassing situation is experienced publicly or privately. Additionally, there is a need to understand why consumers engage in symbolic coping behavior.
In addressing these gaps in literature, this study seeks to better understand the relationship between publicly and privately experienced embarrassment and how it influences consumers symbolic coping behavior. Additionally, this study seeks to better understand why consumers engage in symbolic coping behaviors. Lastly, there is literature suggesting that negative emotional states can be attenuated by washing hands for instance (e.g., Zhong & Liljenquist 2006). Hence, this study will also investigate how this symbolic behavior relates to privately vs. publicly experienced embarrassing situations differently. To enhance our knowledge on consumer embarrassment and symbolic coping behavior, an experiment is developed and implemented. We will manipulate a publicly vs. privately embarrassing situation
The Impact of Goal Conflict on Happiness and Meaningfulness in Life – The Underlying Role of Stress, Anxiety and Negative Affect
No full textWhen people experience goal-conflict they perceive to have less time. This effect can be explained by increase in stress and anxiety (Etkin et al. 2015). The present study uses this finding as a background to investigate how experiencing goal conflicts impacts how experiencing goal conflicts impacts peoples’ sense of happiness and meaningfulness. On top, we aim at explaining this effect by investigating the role of stress and anxiety as well as negative affect
Public vs. Private Embarrassment & Symbolic Coping – Hiding – Restoring & Cleaning?
No full textAdvertising Embarrassing Products – Can Humor Help?
No full textThe feeling embarrassment is quite ubiquitous in our lives. Embarrassment refers to “an aversive emotional state in which one feels chagrin following deliberation on perceived negative appraisal by others or negative appraisal by oneself for transgressions that occur either in public or in private contexts.” (Krishna et al. 2019, p. 495). As embarrassment is a negative emotion people either try to avoid embarrassing situations or minimize it. One strategy to cope with embarrassing situations is by using humor (Grace 2005; 2009). Similarly, people use humor to manage the impression they leave on others. As Bitterly and Schweitzer (2019) have shown, the use of humor as an impression management tool can have beneficial effects on the perception of warmth and competence when disclosing negative information. This raises the question if humor also has beneficial effects for companies using it to advertise embarrassing products. Based on this, we assume that advertisements depicting embarrassing products (e.g., anti-diarrhea products) might also benefit from using humor in their advertisements. The study context is the social Media platform Instagram. The medium Instagram was chosen as a representation of a Social Media platform which has become a valuable platform and business model for companies to communicate and address consumers while allowing to interact with the audience and co-create with brand content (Di Gangi & Wasko, 2016)
Moral Hypocrisy in Sustainable Consumption - 1
No full textConsumers have to make a trade-offs in their consumption choices on a daily basis. Regularly, consumer have to balance the trade-off when making self-interest choices compared to greater good choices (e.g., Haidt, 2001). While it was a long-established tradition in economic research that consumers make self-interest decisions that maximizes their own interest, this school of thought is only one side of the coin. The other side of the coin reflects consumers desire for a fair marketplace. This is more evident today than in previous centuries as products focusing on social and environmental causes is on the raise.
However, occasionally, consumers fall short on deciding for the greater good decision. So, consumers might decide for the self-interest choice and against the sustainable alternative. In such cases, consumers might make excuses for themselves and judge themselves with greater lenience. Contrary, when consumer see other consumers facing the same trade-off decision, and also deciding for the self-interest choice they might judge this person more harshly. This is what research called moral hypocrisy. In sum, this study is interested in understanding the role of moral hypocrisy when consumers have to make trade-off decisions between self-interest and greater good decisions (Campbell & Winterich 2018)
The Impact of Goal Conflict on Happiness and Meaningfulness and the Perception of Activities
No full textWhen people experience goal-conflict they perceive to have less time. This effect can be explained by increase in stress and anxiety (Etkin et al. 2015). The present study investigates how experiencing research investigates how experiencing goal conflicts impacts peoples’ sense of happiness and meaningfulness. On top, we aim at investigating how the experience of goal conflict leads to diverging perceptions of activities
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