EXPRESS: Choice Deprivation, Choice Overload, and Satisfaction With Choices Across Six Nations

2021 ◽  
pp. 1069031X2110738
Author(s):  
Elena Reutskaja ◽  
Nathan N. Cheek ◽  
Sheena Iyengar ◽  
Barry Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Choice Overload ◽  
Six Nations ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Ideal

Whether consumers have too little, too much, or the ideal amount of choice can have profound consequences. The present research explores patterns of choice deprivation (having less choice than desired) and choice overload (having more choice than desired) across six choice domains in six countries that together provide home to about half the human population (Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia, and the U.S.; combined N = 7,436). In most domains in most countries, choice deprivation was the norm—only in the U.S. was choice overload sometimes commonly reported. Deprivation was also more strongly related to decreased satisfaction with choices than was overload, suggesting that choice deprivation can be both more common and more consequential than overload. The present research has implications for “inverted-U” theories of consumer choice experiences and underlines the need for more diverse samples, including cross-cultural samples, in research on choice deprivation and overload.

Attitudes toward affirmative action and collectivism: A cross-cultural assessment for Brazil and the U.S

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Knepple ◽  
James Carney ◽  
Mino Rios ◽  
Sara Santos Chaves ◽  
Gilcimar Santos Dantas
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Assessment ◽  
The U.S

Influence of Cross-Cultural Competence on Trust Building for the U.S. Military

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecily E.E. Mccoy ◽  
Sandra C. Hughes ◽  
Gabriella Severe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
The U.S

Choice Matters

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Moore ◽  
John A. Quelch ◽  
Emily Boudreau
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Healthcare Provider ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Marketing Management ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
System P ◽  
The U.S

Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) is a timely and thoughtful exploration of the controversial role of consumers in the U.S. healthcare system. In most markets today, consumers have more options and autonomy than ever before. Empowered consumers easily shop around for products and services that better meet their needs, and they widely share their reviews on social media to inform and influence other consumers. Businesses have responded with better experiences and prices to compete for consumers’ business. Though healthcare has lagged behind other industries in this respect, there is a rising tide of interest in consumer choice and empowerment in healthcare markets. However, most healthcare provider organizations, individual doctors, and health insurers are unprepared to consider patients as consumers. The authors draw upon the fields of medicine, marketing, management, psychology, and public policy as they take a substantive, in-depth look at consumer choice and point out its appropriate use, as well as its limitations. This book addresses perplexing issues, such as how healthcare differs from other consumer-driven markets, how consumers make healthcare decisions, and how increased consumer choice in healthcare can not only aid and empower American consumers but also improve the overall healthcare system.

scholarly journals “Hang the Flesh off the Bones”: Cultivating an “Ideal Body” in Taijiquan and Neigong

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4417
Author(s):  
Xiujie Ma ◽  
George Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Chinese Text ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Ideal Body ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Ideal

In a globalized, media-driven society, people are being exposed to different cultural and philosophical ideas. In Europe, the School of Internal Arts (pseudonym) follows key principles of the ancient Chinese text The Yijinjing (The Muscle-Tendon Change Classic) “Skeleton up, flesh down”, in its online and offline pedagogy. This article draws on an ongoing ethnographic, netnographic and cross-cultural investigation of the transmission of knowledge in this atypical association that combines Taijiquan with a range of practices such as Qigong, body loosening exercises and meditation. Exploring the ideal body cultivated by the students, we describe and illustrate key (and often overlooked) body areas—namely the spine, scapula, Kua and feet, which are continually worked on in the School of Internal Arts’ exercise-based pedagogy. We argue that Neigong and Taijiquan, rather than being forms of physical education, are vehicles for adult physical re-education. This re-education offers space in which mind-body tension built over the life course are systematically released through specific forms of attentive, meditative exercise to lay the foundations for a strong, powerful body for martial artistry and health.

Organic Hits the Mainstream

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connor J. Fitzmaurice ◽  
Brian J. Gareau
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Organic Foods ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Federal Recognition ◽  
Chemical Inputs ◽  
Consistent Basis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Chemical Pesticides ◽  
The U.S

With the passage of the U.S. Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) of 1990, organic food left the fringes of America’s agricultural economy and received federal recognition— and regulation. But how did organic farming become a niche market governed by regulations aimed at limiting the use of synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers, rather than by more holistic concerns about society and ecology? This chapter provides an overview of the regulatory processes that yielded both the OFPA and the final USDA organic standards implemented in 2000. While the federal government’s approach to organic farming began with a holistic, process-based definition of organic agriculture in the USDA’s 1980 “Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming,” the final standards came to focus on issues surrounding chemical inputs. This process served to settle the organic market by providing commensurability, offering a consistent basis for consumer choice, not broad agricultural sustainability.

scholarly journals U.S. National Debt- A Risk Management Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Simin Hojat ◽  
Denise Ginzo
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
National Debt ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Research Show ◽  
The Ideal

The U.S. national debt reached the astounding figure of 22 trillion dollars in 2018 (Gomes & Sinclair, 2019). It splashed onto the headlines of newspapers and became a topic of interest for Nobel laureate economists, dividing opinions on the potential impacts and the necessity of corrective measures. Krugman (2019) advocates that the national debt is trivial for a large economy like the U.S.; whereas, economists, such as Summers (2019), assume a more cautious position in recommending clear restrictions on the never-ending rise in the national debt. Some intriguing questions persist: should measures to restrain or reduce the debt be taken? If so, what is the ideal time to put them into effect? The purpose of this study is to analyze the reasons for the increasing U.S. national debt and to raise a discussion on the ideas of these reputed economists to address these questions. Additionally, the fundamental principles of risk management have been explained to evaluate the national debt from a different perspective (Homan, 2013). The findings of this research show that there are similarities between the theory of risk management and the risk concerns involved in the U.S. national debt. The social impact of this research includes the potential for the risk management tools identified to be used in analyzing the sovereign national debt.

Collective (Mis)Representation of U.S. Immigration Laws

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-532
Author(s):  
Stephanie Pedron
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Collective Representations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Ideal

This paper examines historic federal immigration policies that demonstrate how the United States has rendered entire groups of people living inside and outside of its territory as outsiders. Collective representations like the Statue of Liberty suggest that the U.S. is a nation that welcomes all immigrants, when in reality, the U.S. has historically functioned as a “gatekeeper” that excludes specific groups of people at different times. The concurrent existence of disparate beliefs within a society’s collective consciousness influences the public’s views toward citizenship and results in policy outcomes that contrast sharply from the ideal values that many collective representations signify. As restrictive immigration controls are refined, insight into how immigrant exclusion via federal policy has evolved is necessary to minimize future legislative consequences that have the potential to ostracize current and future Americans.

The Northern Gulf of Mexico

2021 ◽  
pp. 283-342
Author(s):  
Jason S. Link ◽  
Anthony R. Marshak
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Penaeid Shrimp ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Eastern Oyster ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management ◽  
The U.S

This chapter describes the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) region and the major issues facing this marine fisheries ecosystem, and presents some summary statistics related to the 90 indicators of ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) criteria. The region contains high numbers of marine species comprising commercially and recreationally important invertebrate (e.g., penaeid shrimp, blue crab, eastern oyster) and finfish (e.g., red snapper, grouper, red drum, pelagic sportfishes) fisheries, which contribute heavily to national landings and seafood supply. The northern GOM contains one of the nation’s largest marine economies (among the eight U.S. regional marine ecosystems), which is dependent on offshore mineral extractions, tourism, marine transportation, living marine resources (LMRs), and other ocean uses. The GOM provides critical social and economic benefits to the region and the nation, is a region with high numbers of managed species, yet exploitation of these resources and an increasing human population makes the GOM an area subject to significant natural and human stressors, including the highest number of hurricanes in the U.S. Atlantic region, large expanses of hypoxic bottom water, overfishing, and major oil spills like the 2010 DWH event.

Military Masculinity and the Deserting Soldier in Stop-Loss (2008)

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-151
Author(s):  
Thomas Ærvold Bjerre
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Stop Loss ◽  
Military Masculinity ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
War Film

The chapter outlines the deserter narrative in American war culture, with a focus on the inherent tensions between normative ideals of masculinity and transgressive notions of cowardice. The chapter then analyzes Kimberly Peirce’s 2008 Iraq War film Stop-Loss in this context. The U.S. war film genre is regulated by certain conventions regarding masculinity, heroism and national identity, but by presenting the transgressive act of desertion as one of moral courage, Peirce challenges established notions of military masculinity and national identity. This challenge remains temporary, though: the main character retains the culturally powerful trope of the ideal male soldier. Ultimately, he is unable to turn his back on his men and his country, and the film is unable to fully undermine the potent trope that links nation, military and masculinity.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document