Panagiotis Stamolampros is a guest editor for a forthcoming special issue of Electronic Markets, with a focus on “The Cultural Impact in Platform Competition.” The call for papers can be found here
The paper examines to what extent emotional place attachment is impacted by people’s feelings towards international companies associated with the place, and what mechanism and conditions drive such effects. The research draws on the feelings-as-information perspective and empirically tests the relationships in three international multi-method studies. The results demonstrate that brand loyalty plays a key…
Natalie Van Der Wal was interviewed on an ITV programme about whether ‘Blue Monday’ is real. Blue Monday, the third Monday in January is alleged to be the most depressing day of the year. Natalie talked about how her computer simulations help to understand human behaviour better by predicting frustration levels in stranded passengers and…
The new article suggests that age-related declines in decision-making competence are minor: Del Missier, F., Hansson, P., Parker, A.M., Bruine de Bruin, W., & Mäntylä, T. (in press). Decision-making competence in older adults: A rosy view from a longitudinal investigation. Psychology and Aging.
Sajid Siraj has become an academic advisor to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commision in the UK. He will work on the advisory panel reviewing scholarship applications.
Alan Pearman recently contributed a session on Decision Making to the United Nations Secretariat Executive Management Programme for senior UN staff. The workshop, held at Kuriftu near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was attended by more than forty UN officials, mostly from the African continent. CDR members Nicola Bown and Richard Hodgett are also contributing to the…
Wandi Bruine de Bruin’s article “Age Differences in Reported Social Networks and Well-Being” (with Andrew Parker and JoNell Strough) in Psychology an Aging has been reported by the Daily Mail in an article “Quality of friends – NOT quantity – is the key to being happy and large networks on social media are no match…
Alan Pearman was one of the co-authors in the latest publication to emerge from the NIHR-funded project “ A realist process evaluation of robot-assisted surgery: integration into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration and decision-making”. The paper is Randell, R., Greenhalgh, J., Hindmarsh, J., Honey, S., Pearman A., Alvarado, N. and Dowding, D. “How…
Alan Pearman has again been serving as a Vice-Chair in the evaluation in Brussels of proposals to the European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships competition.
Congratulations to CDR member Panagiotis Stamolampros for his article been published in Tourism Management – Stamolampros, P., Dousios, D., Korfiatis, N., and Symitsi, E. (In Press). The Joint Effect of Consumer and Service Providers’ Culture on Online Service Evaluations: A Response Surface Analysis. Tourism Management
