scholarly journals I Believe I Can Fly—Conceptual Foundations for Behavioral Rebound Effects Related to Voluntary Carbon Offsetting of Air Travel

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4774
Author(s):  
Christoph Kerner ◽  
Thomas Brudermann
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Rebound Effect ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Rebound Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Carbon Offsetting ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Voluntary carbon offsets (VCO) have been introduced as a means of compensating personal carbon emissions related to travelling. Purchases of VCO have remained low in the past, but might increase in the future due to rising awareness about climate change. VCO have been assumed to increase the acceptability of flying among eco-minded people. Therefore, VCO might not only be a tool to offset emissions but also to compensate for “flight shame”. Much research has been carried out to detect VCO purchasers’ motives, but none has explored the potential behavioral rebound effects of VCO with regard to flying. This article contributes to the debate by presenting a conceptual framework that was developed to investigate these rebound effects. First, we present the motives that travelers have for offsetting their flight emissions. These motives already indicate the possibility of a rebound effect. Second, we discuss several conceptual ideas which should be considered for the design of empirical studies. Overall, we argue that the use of VCO might lead to unintended carbon emissions; however, isolating the specific role of VCO remains a difficult task. Nevertheless, research on behavioral rebound effects is needed to clarify whether VCO counteract sustainability in the transport sector.

scholarly journals Emotion Regulation Choice: Differences in U.S. and Indian Populations

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish Mehta ◽  
Gerald Young ◽  
Alyssa Wicker ◽  
Sarah Barber ◽  
Gaurav Suri
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Choice Behavior ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intensity Images ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Effective Use

In the past two decades, researchers have conclusively demonstrated that various emotion regulation (ER) strategies give rise to differing consequences. Such findings have prompted an examination of the internal and external factors that contribute to emotion regulation choice. Previous empirical studies modeling ER choice have been limited to Western samples. Based on knowledge of the role of culture in other choice behavior, we sought to test whether culture was a driver of ER choice. For the present studies, we compared ER choices of participants from India, to ER choices of participants from the U.S.A. Research demonstrating a correlation between religiosity and effective use of cognitive reappraisal lead us to anticipate the more religious India showing higher rates of cognitive reappraisal. Based on the incorporation of acceptance themes in Indian philosophy, as well as higher rates of fatalistic outlooks in India, we also expected to see Indian participants more frequently using an acceptance ER strategy. We further expected that difference in choice strategies would be moderated by emotional intensity of the stimuli. To test these hypotheses, we presented high and low-intensity emotion-eliciting images to both samples and recorded ER choice selections. We discovered that as hypothesized, the Indian sample was significantly more likely to use cognitive reappraisal than the U.S. sample, specifically for high intensity images. Contrary to our hypothesis, the choice rate for acceptance was indistinguishable in the Indian and U.S. samples. This research indicates that culture bears considerably on which strategies people choose to employ when regulating emotion in response to negative stimuli.

Gendered Massacres: Examining the Effects of Cultural and Structural Gender Inequality on the Incidence of Mass Public Shootings

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 885-905
Author(s):  
Margaret Schmuhl ◽  
Joel A. Capellan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Gender Hierarchy

With nearly 97% of incidents within the past 40 years committed by men, mass public shootings are a gendered social problem. Yet, empirical research on this phenomenon largely neglects gender hierarchy and cultural factors as predictors, in favor of individual- and event-level characteristics. Despite calls from scholars to place masculinity and threats to patriarchal hegemony at the center of analyses, no empirical studies to our knowledge have examined the role of gender inequality in mass public shootings. The findings indicate that gender inequality, structural and ideological, are important predictors of mass public shootings and that future research should continue to investigate such violence from a gendered lens.

The Influence of Employer Branding on Employer Attractiveness and Employee Engagement and Retention

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-69
Author(s):  
Nasser Fathi Easa ◽  
Ayman Mahmoud Bazzi
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Employee Retention ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Employer Branding ◽  
Topic Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Employer Attractiveness

This paper aims to review the literature over the past 10 years related to employer branding by shedding light on its role of enhancing employer attractiveness, employee engagement, and retention. The paper offers a better understanding for the literature gap related to the employer branding field. A systematic review of 33 articles published between 2010 and 2019 was conducted in which the reviewed papers were classified depending on electronic databases, namely Emerald, Science Direct, and Business Source Complete. The research findings were analyzed based on two classifications: descriptive and main topic analysis. The majority of the reviewed articles were empirical studies published during the year 2018, revealing the importance of employer branding by creating employer attractiveness, employee engagement, and employee retention, in addition to focusing on employee retention as a main tool for achieving a competitive advantage.

scholarly journals Mediation in Germany and Other Western Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
HELMUT KURY ◽  
ANNETTE KUHLMANN
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternatives To Incarceration ◽  
Western European ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Limited Usefulness

Empirical studies over the past decades have repeatedly shown the limited usefulness of harsh punishment in reducing crime. In response to these research results, historical approaches to crime reduction, such as mediation and restorative justice, have regained prominence, especially in Germany and other western European countries. The women’s movement and the growing role of victimology have contributed to the increased use of these methods as alternatives to incarceration. The debates across these countries vary depending on the historical background of the penal climate in these states, which particularly explains the differences between Eastern and Western European countries in this regard. Empirical studies show the positive impact of mediation on offenders as well as victims. Yet in spite of these results, in most countries, including Germany, the use of mediation remains limited, especially in regard to adult offenders. At the same time, the uses of mediation in non-criminal conflict settings, such as schools, family or work disputes have increased significantly with positive results.

Psychoanalytic theories of suicide

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Elsa Ronningstam ◽  
Igor Weinberg ◽  
John T. Maltsberger
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
Melancholic Depression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Objectification ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories

Psychoanalytic theories and studies have influenced the explorations of suicide over the past hundred years. Freud’s first observations of self-objectification in melancholic depression were followed by contributions from object relation theorists and self-psychologists, highlighting foremost the role of narcissistic rage and structural vulnerability. Several of the central clinical concepts that unfolded have more recently been subject to empirical testing. This text provides an overview and discussion of the different psychoanalytic formulations applied to suicide. Empirical studies of several assumptions and constructs related to emotions, defences, and structural deficits and vulnerabilities verify their association to or explanation of chronic and acute suicidality. Further conceptualizations and research, especially on subtypes of suicide and individual experiences leading up to and dominating suicidal states, are called for.

Situating Ethics in Online Mourning Research: A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
David Myles ◽  
Maria Cherba ◽  
Florence Millerand
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Public Disclosure ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Data Sensitivity

In the past decade, social media have put mourning practices at the forefront of daily life in ways that challenge assumptions made about the public disclosure of information often construed as being highly intimate. This article examines how researchers conceive online mourning in empirical studies and how such conceptions inform (or not) methodological and ethical decisions. Through a scoping review, we identified 40 empirical papers addressing online mourning. Our analysis shows that, while online mourning practices have overwhelmingly been problematized in terms of privacy and publicness within the current literature, ethical issues relating to their analysis have been scarcely addressed in empirical research. In line with Foucault’s work on the dispositif, we then examine the performative role of privacy and data sensitivity in the context of online mourning research (notably in relation to consent procurement) and discuss our findings in light of emerging trends in context-based ethics.

scholarly journals Multiple approaches to complexity in second language research

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Housen ◽  
Bastien De Clercq ◽  
Folkert Kuiken ◽  
Ineke Vedder
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Language Complexity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interface Phenomena ◽  
Complexity Measurement ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Reductionist Approach

In the past decades, there has been a surge in interest in the study of language complexity in second language (L2) research. In this article we provide an overview of current theoretical and methodological practices in L2 complexity research, while simultaneously framing these within the broader scientific interest into the notion of complexity. In addition to focusing on the role of complexity in L2 research, we trace how language complexity has figured in formal theoretical and typological linguistics. It is argued that L2 complexity research has often adopted a reductionist approach to the construct, both in terms of its definition and its operationalization. As such, previous L2 research has often confused related but conceptually distinct and operationally separable notions, such as relative and absolute complexity, and it has overemphasized syntactic and lexical forms of complexity at the expense of complexity related to morphology or linguistic interface phenomena. We then discuss a collection of five empirical studies which react to several of these issues by highlighting hitherto underexplored forms of complexity, adopting an explicitly cross-linguistic perspective or by proposing novel forms of L2 complexity measurement.

scholarly journals Air Travel and Urbanity: The Role of Migration, Social Networks, Airport Accessibility, and ‘Rebound’

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-245
Author(s):  
Giulio Mattioli ◽  
Craig Morton ◽  
Joachim Scheiner
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rebound Effect ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Migration Background ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Distance Travel ◽  
Long Distance Travel

Residents of urban areas, and particularly urban cores, have higher levels of long-distance travel activity and related emissions, mostly on account of greater frequency of air travel. This relationship typically remains after controlling for basic socio-economic correlates of long-distance travel. There is an ongoing debate in the literature about what causes this association, and whether it calls into question urban densification strategies. Understanding this is important from a climate policy perspective. In this article, we investigate the role of three factors: i) access to airports; ii) the concentration of people with migration background and/or geographically dispersed social networks in urban areas; and iii) greater air travel by urban residents without cars (‘rebound effect’). We use representative survey data for the UK including information on respondents’ air travel frequency for private purposes and derive estimates of greenhouse gas emissions. The dataset also includes detailed information on migration generation, residential location of close family and friends, car ownership and use, as well as low-level geographical identifiers. The findings of regression analysis show that Greater London residents stand out in terms of emissions from air travel. Airport accessibility, migration background, and dispersion of social networks each explain part of this association, whereas we find no evidence of a rebound effect. However, proximity to town centres remains associated with higher emissions after accounting for these issues, indicating that this association is due to other factors than those considered here. We conclude by discussing implications for urban and climate policy, as well as future research.

A review of literature on mediators and moderators of workplace bullying

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 822-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arpana Rai ◽  
Upasna A. Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reasonable Number ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

Purpose During the past 26 years, there has been a phenomenal growth in the literature on workplace bullying. The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesize the extant empirical studies on underlying and intervening mechanisms in antecedents–bullying and bullying–outcomes relationships. Design/methodology/approach In total, 53 studies on mediators and moderators in antecedents–bullying and bullying–outcomes relationships (2001-2016) were selected from academic databases (Google Scholar, Research Gate, Emerald Insight, Science Direct, etc.) Findings The review suggests that while a reasonable number of studies examine the role of mediators and moderators in bullying–outcomes relationships, such efforts are meager in antecedents–bullying relationships. The paper concludes by proposing some potential variables that can explain the underlying mechanisms in the bullying phenomenon and alleviate/aggravate the antecedents–bullying–outcomes relationships. Originality/value To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is the first review on mediators and moderators of workplace bullying.

scholarly journals Achieving Service innovation Through Market Orientation: The Role of Relationship Marketing and Knowledge Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Ullah ◽  
Mansoora Ahmed ◽  
Dmitry V. Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Relationship Marketing ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
The Past

Market orientation is a widely discussed concept in marketing literature while relationship marketing has emerged as an important paradigm over the past decade. Research has shown the significance of relationship marketing for increased sales and enhanced organizational performance. On the other hand, knowledge management is also an important agenda for organizations. Prevalent approach of service dominant logic has raised the interest of researchers in studying service as science. Both manufacturing industry and service industry rely on service innovations for success and competitive advantage. This paper theoretically analyzes the role of market orientation, relationship marketing and knowledge management and proposes a theoretical framework for their combined effect on service innovation. The framework is proposed for researchers to conduct further empirical studies in order to test its validity in practical work environment.

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