scholarly journals Symbolic Product Attributes And Emulatory Consumption: The Case Of Rodeo Fan Attendance And The Wearing Of Western Clothing

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Keith Schwer ◽  
Rennae Daneshvary
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Reference Groups ◽  
Product Attributes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Symbolic Products

Clothing is an ideal product for the study of emulatory consumption because it is visible, accessible, and relatively inexpensive. This study addresses the relationship between the purchase and usage of symbolic products (western clothing) and involvement with reference groups (rodeo society). Data presented are from a survey which was distributed to 1,559 rodeo fans who attended the 1991 National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

scholarly journals The psychological imagination

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Tateo
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Dialogical Self Theory ◽  
Higher Psychological Functions ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Symbolic Products

Abstract: The commentary presents an epistemological reflection about Dialogical Self theory. First, the theoretical issues of DS about the relationship between individuality, alterity and society are discussed, elaborating on the articles of this special issue. Then, it is presented the argument of psychologist's ontological fallacy, that is the attitude to moving from the study of processes to the study of psychological entities. Finally a development toward new research directions is proposed, focusing on the study of higher psychological functions and processes, taking into account complex symbolic products of human activity and developing psychological imagination.

C. Abnormal rituals in stress situations the rigidification of behaviour

1966 ◽  
Vol 251 (772) ◽  
pp. 327-330 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Basic Fact ◽  
Nest Material ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Action Pattern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Animal Psychology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Skinner Box ◽  
Reaction Chain

Behaviour sequences commonly consist of highly variable appetitive phases leading to rather fixed consummatory acts. Action-pattern rigidity is typical of the terminal moments of a reaction chain. This basic fact is all too often obscured by the artificial conditions of behaviour studies. Observations on laboratory or captive animals tend to conceal the degree of variability of the earlier phases of each sequence. The simplicity and sterility of the unnatural environment offered to the animal causes differential damage to its motoric performance, attacking the early stages more and the later stages less. A caged animal will feed, drink, nest and copulate, but it cannot set off on lengthy quests for food, water, nest material or a mate. Notorious laboratory devices such as the Skinner-box have served to eliminate totally any possibility for motoric variability. The emphasis in laboratory studies of this kind has been steadfastly concentrated on the variability in the relationship between simple stimuli and an artificially rigidified response. Although the study of this (SR) relationship is an important aspect of animal psychology, it is extremely misleading to overstress its importance as has been done so often in the past. To equate it with the whole topic of animal behaviour is like claiming that the gaming rooms of Las Vegas reflect the whole of human endeavour.

Degrees of Product Newness and Early Trial

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Donnelly ◽  
Michael J. Etzel
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Product Attributes ◽  
Early Trial ◽  
The Relationship

Although numerous demographic and behavioral characteristics have been associated with early triers, little research has been done examining the relationship between early trial and product attributes. This study suggests that the degree of newness of a product is a major factor in determining who tries it.

What Happens in Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson's Political Philosophy

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
JASON VREDENBURG
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Hardt And Negri ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The Relationship

In the forty years since its publication, Hunter S. Thompson's most famous work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has received relatively little attention from scholars, in spite of its continuing popularity and acknowledged influence. Because the narrative is so thoroughly rooted in what Thompson called “this foul year of Our Lord, 1971,” the novel is generally approached (when it is discussed at all) as a historical artifact, a gonzo first draft of history, with its fortunes rising and falling with the counterculture of the 1960s. This article argues that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, far from being merely an epitaph for the 1960s, actually anticipates the more recent work of political theorists Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri. Thompson's work, like Agamben's, concerns the emergence of the state of exception and the homo sacer as new paradigms for the relationship between citizen and state; and, like Hardt and Negri, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas attempts to formulate a response to the emergence of global empire.

Materials Research at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2016 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Ravhi S. Kumar ◽  
Weldu Gabrimicael ◽  
Andrew L. Cornelius
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
High Pressures ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
High Pressure Studies ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Indirect Band Gap ◽  
The Relationship

High-pressure studies on thermoelectric materials allow the study of the relationship between structural, elastic, and electronic properties. The High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (HiPSEC) at UNLV performs interdisciplinary research on a wide variety of materials at high pressures. One such system, CrSi2 is an indirect band gap semiconductor that has potential applications in solar cells.

scholarly journals The 1951 Refugee Convention’s Contingent Rights Framework and Article 26 of the ICCPR: A Fundamental Incompatibility?

Refuge ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Marina Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Reference Group ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Reference Groups ◽  
Host State ◽  
The Status ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between two primary structural features of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees—that many benefits under it accrue on the basis of a refugee’s degree of attachment to his or her host state and that many rights under the convention are guaranteed to a refugee only to the extent that they are enjoyed by a particular reference group—and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’ article 26 equality guarantee. Specifically, it examines whether attachment contingencies and reference groups, when incorporated in the refugee laws of states party to the ICCPR, might run afoul of article 26.

The effect of the Las Vegas Strip on hotel prices: A hedonic approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-639
Author(s):  
Stephen J Conroy ◽  
Nicholas Toma ◽  
Gregory P Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Hotel Room ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hedonic Approach ◽  
Hedonic Estimation

The authors investigate the effect of location on the nightly hotel room rates charged in Las Vegas. Using a hedonic estimation approach, the authors control for room amenities and hotel and time characteristics. Including 6087 hotel room nights for hotels located near the Las Vegas Strip in two different years (2012 and 2017), the authors estimate the relationship between hotel location and nightly room rates. Consistent with prior investigations, the authors find strong evidence for the effect of location, amenities, and day of week on hotel prices, with a “Strip premium” of 40.21% (US$106.85 at the mean hotel price) for hotels located within 0.25 miles of the Las Vegas Strip compared to hotels beyond 0.75 miles of the Strip. They estimate a Center-of-Strip premium of 70.23% (US$186.61 at the mean hotel price) for hotels located within 0.75 miles, 36.89% (US$98.01) for the next 0.75 miles, and 18.89% (US$50.18) for the next 0.75 miles, compared to hotels beyond 2.25 miles.

Does the Future Really Matter?

2016 ◽  
pp. 41-68
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Consumer Perception ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Reference Groups ◽  
Brand Association ◽  
Brand Relationship ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

In Chapter 2, we have discussed about consumer perception on future anticipation to understand the trends for customer's potential needs and wants in the future, especially regarding the relationship between brand association and future anticipation to develop brand loyalty. In this chapter, we will expand the discussion by attempting to understand the complex nature regarding the influence of future anticipation and reference groups towards autobiographical memory, brand relationship, as well as market performance. The study conducted in this chapter was co-authored with Luiz Moutinho (Adam Smith School of Business, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland) and Joaquin Aldas (Business School, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain).

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