Personality traits and bidding behavior in competing auctions

We study strategic behavior in an “alternating recognition” model of English auctions with competing sellers, which mimics a structure that is common in online marketplaces such as eBay. To relate decision making in our experimental setting to individual differences, we measure subjects’ personality with the Big-Five Trait Taxonomy. Our results suggest that personality has meaningful predictive power in explaining bidding behavior but only for female subjects. Further, females also earn more than males and the gender gap in earnings is large and significant. Finally, personality indirectly affects earnings through the choice of strategies but has no direct effect on earnings, controlling for strategies. This is an important result in that it demonstrates the mechanism through which personality matters in our setting.     

英国高校创业教育的发展历程与反思

英国是创业教育先行并较为成功的国家之一。英国的创业教育发端于工业革命与商业文化的兴起,得力于政策推动与基金扶持,成功于创业课程设置以及差异化的专业化创业人才培养模式的构建,具有鲜明的民族特征与时代特色。分析和研究英国创业教育的发展历程和教育现状,对于包括我国在内的大学生创业教育的持续发展,有着广泛的借鉴意义。     

列宁反对第二国际修正主义的斗争及其当代启迪

列宁在反对第二国际修正主义斗争的历史过程中，按照马克思主义的原则，在团结群众斗争、马克思主义具体化时代化、党建方面坚持和发展了马克思主义。尽管列宁在这一斗争领域的思想及路径、策略还有很多，但上述几个方面具有代表性。把这几个具有代表性的思想用来指导批判当代社会主义现代化建设过程中出现的各种问题和矛盾所滋生的各式各样的反马克思主义思潮，将使我们得到莫大的启迪。     

辛亥革命理想的坚定守望者——柳亚子

辛亥革命虽然未能彻底完成民主革命的任务,但先驱者中不乏执着追求理想的坚定革命者。柳亚子在20世纪初鼓吹民权主义、民族主义,以文字播动革命风潮,更全面地把握和体现了民主主义的理想和精神,对辛亥革命的爆发起了舆论准备作用;而且在民国初建的那一刻,就敏锐地觉察到这场风暴的不彻底性,首倡＂第二次革命＂;孙中山逝世后,又在与西山会议派斗争中,对概括和阐扬新三民主义的三大政策做出突出贡献,并坚持数十年。柳亚子是辛亥革命理想的坚定守望者。     

情感因素在高职英语教学中的应用

在推进素质教育的今天,情感教育已受到越来越多的关注,英语运用情感教育,在教学过程实施情感课堂教学,营造宽松教学氛围;优化课堂教学教法,激发学生情感兴趣;注重师生情感交流,形成和谐友爱关系。情感教育的运用,陶冶了学生的情操,激发了学生的学习动机,提高了学习的效率,促进了英语教学,对全面推进素质教育有着重要的作用。     

Challenges and solutions for marketing in a digital era

Internet usage continues to explode across the world with digital becoming an increasingly important source of competitive advantage in both B2C and B2B marketing. A great deal of attention has been focused on the tremendous opportunities digital marketing presents, with little attention on the real challenges companies are facing going digital. In this study, we present these challenges based on results of a survey among a convenience sample of 777 marketing executives around the globe. The results reveal that filling “talent gaps”, adjusting the “organizational design”, and implementing “actionable metrics” are the biggest improvement opportunities for companies across sectors.     

农村二孩生育间隔的分层模型研究

2001年全国计划生育/生殖健康调查数据本质上是分层结构性质的,其中包括妇女个人数据和村级数据两个层次,比较适合采用分层模型分析。本文应用分层线性模型分析了这一原始数据,考察宏观的社会经济环境及计划生育氛围与微观的妇女个人特征如何共同影响二孩生育间隔。     

Online authority communication during an epidemic: A Finnish example

Social media are creating new challenges for authority communications during crises, such as a pandemic. This study examined Finnish citizens’ opinions about authorities as crisis managers during the swine flu epidemic of 2009-2010 and examined the success of authority intervention to online discussion forums. Through a content analysis carried out at the discussion forums, the study showed that though authorities are highly trusted in general in Finland, this trust is not extended to the online environment. Online, civilians did not trust authorities and the protective actions taken. Moreover, the authorities’ intervention to the discussion forums aimed at correcting false information and shaping opinions seemed to fail, as the intervention was carried out too late and with too little resources. The paper calls for more proactive authority communication that would establish a dialogue with citizens before a crisis to ensure credibility during difficult times.     

The situated self and the negotiation of a “bad” identity in therapeutic foster care

This article presents one of the three main findings from twenty-three observations over four months. The study critically analyzed the naturally occurring discourse used in two foster homes between caregiver and youth to negotiate the self. Three main discourse genres included, “you're bad,” “boys to men,” and “learn the hard way.” This article focuses on the “you're bad” genre and the linguistic tools used to impose and refute the “bad” identity. The findings elicit theoretical considerations, such as addressing aspects of selfhood (e.g., behavioral demonstrations) apart from the naturally occurring day-to-day context within which the self developed (e.g., the pre-placement living environment). It is recommended that future discourse analytic research examines the ongoing development of self upon the return to the pre-placement living environment or other permanent environment.     

Design of a language stimulation program for children suffering abuse

This article proposes an intervention program, designed specifically for children in residential care who suffer institutionalized abuse, aimed at stimulating their use of language. The objective of the intervention procedure is to improve children's linguistic competence and their socio-affective development, as well as to enable parents to communicate and interact effectively with their children. Several studies have focused on the difficulties children suffering from abuse have with verbal expression and other areas of development. The research stresses the need to set up intervention programs that can improve the linguistic and social competence of children suffering from abuse. With such children, there is a fundamental need to develop a competence that will encourage their adaptive social skills, which are basic skills for interacting socially and which encourage the pragmatic language function, a skill needed for relating to adults and solving interpersonal problems.