scholarly journals Conspicuous Reviewing: Affiliation with High-status Organizations as a Motivation for Writing Online Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311877684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Kovács ◽  
Suzanne Horwitz
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
High Status ◽  
Public Identity ◽  
Status Consumption ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Post Online

The vast amount of reviews available online presents a paradox: Why do reviewers spend hours writing them? Here we demonstrate in three studies that one reason people write online reviews is to bolster their public identity by conspicuously affiliating with high-status products or organizations. First, we conducted a set of surveys and found that participants are more likely to post online reviews of restaurants that are higher status, controlling for their familiarity and liking of the restaurant. Second, we found that individual differences in status consumption motivation predicted increased desire to post reviews. Third, we conducted an experiment and found that participants were more likely to review the higher versus lower status restaurant.

Are Hotel Guests Altruistic? How Positive Review Disconfirmation Affects Consumers’ Online Review Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 109634802110303
Author(s):  
Hengyun Li ◽  
Fang Meng ◽  
Simon Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Positive Deviance ◽  
Online Review ◽  
Altruistic Motivation ◽  
Prior Review ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
Post Online

The research aims to examine how positive review disconfirmation (i.e., a positive deviance between a hotel consumer’s poststay evaluation and the average review rating by prior consumers) affects subsequent consumers’ willingness to post online reviews and their own review ratings. By employing an experimental research method, this study reveals that positive review disconfirmation increases hotel guests’ willingness to post online reviews, and increases their online review ratings through the mechanism of concern for others, demonstrating an act of altruism. In addition, comparatively the positive review disconfirmation effects are stronger when the variance of prior review ratings is smaller. This study enhances the online review social influence literature, and the consumer’s altruistic motivation of posting online reviews.

The Effect of Status on Identity Stability

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny L. Davis ◽  
Tony P. Love
Keyword(s):  
Identity Theory ◽  
High Status ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Task Oriented

Using 77 status-imbalanced dyads, we experimentally test the effect of status on identity stability, setting the stage for research on identity change. From an identity theory perspective, we hypothesize that those with higher status will maintain greater identity stability over the course of a task-oriented interaction than their relatively lower status partners. We further test the role of identity-discrepant information. Results indicate that higher status actors are better able to maintain stable identity meanings than those with lower status. However, this relationship dissipates when situational meanings contrast with high-status actors’ self-views. More generally, this indicates that high status positively affects identity stability, yet high-status actors remain vulnerable to situational inputs.

The Interplay of Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Work in Multidisciplinary Teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 1649-1672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariline Comeau-Vallée ◽  
Ann Langley
Keyword(s):  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
High Status ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

The challenges of managing interprofessional boundaries within multidisciplinary teams are well known. However, the role of intraprofessional relations in influencing the dynamics of interprofessional collaboration remain underexplored. Our qualitative study offers a fine-grained analysis of the interplay between inter- and intraprofessional boundary work among three professional groups in a multidisciplinary team over a period of two years. Our contribution to the literature is threefold. First, we identify various forms of “competitive” and “collaborative” boundary work that may occur simultaneously at both inter- and intraprofessional levels. Second, we reveal the dynamic interplay between inter- and intraprofessional boundary negotiations over time. Third, we theorize relationships between the social position of professional groups, and the uses and consequences of competitive and collaborative boundary work tactics at intra- and interprofessional levels. Specifically, we show how intraprofessional conflict within high-status groups may affect interprofessional dynamics, we reveal how intraprofessional and interprofessional boundaries may be mobilized positively to support collaborative relations, and we show how mobilization within lower-status groups around interprofessional boundary grievances can paradoxically lead to further marginalization.

Maya Diets of the Rich and Poor: Paleoethnobotanical Evidence from Copan

1991 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Time Span ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
High Status ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Edible Plant ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Plant Species Distributions ◽  
The Rich

Analysis of plant remains recovered from excavations at Copán in western Honduras has provided substantive data regarding agroeconomic systems of the prehistoric inhabitants. The time span of the deposits ranges from the Gordon/Uir phase (900-400 B. C.), which may have been non-Maya, to the Coner phase (A. D. 700-900+), which encompasses the collapse of the Classic Maya cultural manifestation in the valley. Several traditionally recognized mesoamerican cultigens were identified including corn, beans, and several species of Cucurbitaceae. In addition, remains of a number of economic tree species were discovered, suggesting a reliance on arboriculture as part of the subsistence strategy. Pine charcoal predominated in all deposits and may have been the preferred wood for fuel and construction. Analysis of edible-plant-species distributions from low- and high-status Late Classic dwellings using the Shannon-Weaver index revealed that elite individuals had a higher diversity of available foods, a situation that may have led to nutritional stress among lower-status individuals and, ultimately, social unrest.

Interpersonal Distance as a Function of Task Difficulty, Praise, Status Orientation, and Sex of Partner

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 683-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonore Loeb Adler ◽  
Marvin A. Iverson
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
High Status ◽  
Interpersonal Distance ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Female Partners ◽  
Lower Status

Interpersonal distance between Ss and confederates was measured in the laboratory. Ss placed themselves relatively far away from partners who flattered them and who were ascribed lower status. In turn, they sat farther from subordinates who praised them after performing a difficult in comparison with an easy task. Their spatial distance from partners of high status did not differ across conditions. These results were interpreted as evidence for the fact that social distance as experienced in status-oriented relationships is manifest in interpersonal physical distance. In further analyses, the differences in interpersonal distance were more reliable in same-sex than in male-female partners. Also, men tended to be more variable and on the average more distant than were women.

scholarly journals Demarcating Spectrums of Predatory Publishing: Economic and Institutional Sources of Academic Legitimacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Siler
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
High Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
Institutional Status ◽  
Pricing Power ◽  
High Rejection ◽  
Rejection Rates

The emergence of Open Access (OA) publishing has altered incentives and opportunities for academic stakeholders and publishers. These changes have yielded a variety of new economic and academic niches, including journals with questionable peer review systems and business models, commonly dubbed ‘predatory publishing.’ Empirical analysis of the Cabell’s Journal Blacklist reveals substantial diversity in types and degrees of predatory publishing. While some blacklisted publishers produce journals with many severe violations of academic norms, ‘grey’ journals and publishers occupy borderline or ambiguous niches between predation and legitimacy. Predation in academic publishing is not a simple binary phenomenon and should instead be perceived as a spectrum with varying types and degrees of illegitimacy. Conceptions of predation are based on overlapping evaluations of academic and economic legitimacy. High institutional status benefits publishers by reducing conflicts between – if not aligning – professional and market institutional logics, which are more likely to conflict and create illegitimacy concerns in downmarket niches. High rejection rates imbue high-status journals with value and pricing power, while low-status OA journals face ‘predatory’ incentives to optimize revenue via low selectivity. Status influences the social acceptability of profit-seeking in academic publishing, rendering lower-status publishers vulnerable to being perceived and stigmatized as illegitimate.

Me Versus Us: Concealing High Status Identities from Lower Status Peers

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 15242
Author(s):  
Rachel D. Arnett ◽  
Jim Sidanius
Keyword(s):  
High Status ◽  
Lower Status

The Impact of Power on Service Customers’ Willingness to Post Online Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Wu ◽  
Anna S. Mattila ◽  
Chen-Ya Wang ◽  
Lydia Hanks
Keyword(s):  
Online Reviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Post Online

scholarly journals High status males invest more than high status females in lower status same-sex collaborators

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. e0185408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Markovits ◽  
Evelyne Gauthier ◽  
Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre ◽  
Joyce F. Benenson
Keyword(s):  
High Status ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Lower Status

scholarly journals When High Group Status Becomes a Burden

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Täuber ◽  
Esther van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Public Image ◽  
High Status ◽  
Group Status ◽  
High Group ◽  
Status Group ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Strategic Motives

The present paper investigates the strategic motives that guide the quest for outgroup resources. Resources can be retrieved through spying and requesting help. Whereas both methods are means of obtaining valued resources from the outgroup, spying secures the ingroup’s public image, while requesting help potentially damages this image by displaying the ingroup as incompetent and dependent. Two experiments (N = 99 and N = 99) supported the prediction that, when social change is feasible, members of high status groups spy more on the lower status group than vice versa. No difference was found in either study in the amount of help requested from the outgroup. Results from the second study showed that the effect did not occur when status relations were legitimate and thus unlikely to change. These findings advance our understanding of intergroup helping by demonstrating that strategic motives fundamentally shape aspects of help-seeking between groups.

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