Essays about: "social stimuli"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 111 essays containing the words social stimuli.

  1. 21. Choice blindness and the (in)transitivity of preferences: A graph-based method for studying preference structures in real-time

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Erik Haglund; [2021]
    Keywords : Cognitive science; Behavioural economics; Choice blindness; money pumps; preferences; cognition; graphs; graph theory; intransitive preferences; transitive; decision-making; transitivity; cyclic preferences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The axiom of transitivity states that if a person prefers option A to B and B to C, he must also prefer A to C. This simple axiom is often seen as one of the pillars of rational choice, but whether it should be has created a divide in the research community. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Role of Social Identity in Memory Integration

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Marius Boeltzig; [2021]
    Keywords : memory integration; social contagion; memory conformity; social identity; inference; episodic memory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : An adaptive memory system has to support both the encoding of individual episodes as well as generalization and inference across several episodes. The latter of these two goals is achieved by memory integration in which a memory representation is updated to accommodate new information. READ MORE

  4. 23. Is social media the new drug that generates impulse buying? : A quantitative study on social media´s effect on impulse buying regarding fashion products and if it differs between men and women in Sweden

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF)

    Author : Lina Lennartsson; Adelina Zeka; [2021]
    Keywords : Impulse buying; Online impulse buying; Social media; Influencer marketing; Gender; Internal and external stimulus; Fashion products;

    Abstract : Social media is a phenomenon that is successively developing, and the usage is rising each day, which in turn has an impact on consumer behaviour. Hence, the new attributes that social media provides, both for businesses and individuals, are affecting the way people are acting when making a purchase. READ MORE

  5. 24. Incentivising Intra-Organisational Sustainability Development at GANNI

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Melanie Hermeling; Laura Dittmann; [2021]
    Keywords : Social Physics; Management Control Systems; Fashion; Institutional Theory; Resource-Based View; Sustainability Development; Incentivisation; Design Thinking;

    Abstract : Background – Under the acceleration in globalising tendencies of monopoly capitalism aided by social hyper-connectivity and a supply of cheap international labour, fashion companies struggle to find sufficient agency to manoeuvre their way out of the unsustainable, self-inflicted problems. Since fashion companies' rhetoric on sustainability matters is often far ahead of corporate action, it requires further development and engagement by all actors. READ MORE

  6. 25. A study of lateralized behaviour in domestic horses (Equus caballus)

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Biologi

    Author : Ashley Crosby; [2021]
    Keywords : lateralization; domestic horse Eqqus caballus ; motor social sensory behaviours; individual-level lateralization; population-level lateralization;

    Abstract : Lateralized behaviour is the most conspicuous manifestation of hemispheric specialization of the brain and has been reported in a variety of taxa. Only a few studies have so far assessed lateralized behaviours in horses. READ MORE