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Imitation in Creative Task Performance

Common wisdom has it that ‘apes ape’ and what ‘monkey see, monkey do’. Human beings, though, by far and beyond outperform apes in their capacity for imitation. Copying the behavior of others is such a central capacity in mankind that imitation of the creative products and/or ideas of others also should be an essential ingredient in creative task performance. Much biographical evidence on creative professionals in conjunction with research on imitation in management literature highlights the role of imitation in the creative process. However, previous studies hardly concentrated on behavioral determinants and/or motivational underpinnings of imitation in creative performance settings. To fill this void, the present dissertation reports a series of four laboratory experiments to show that imitation is a component of creative task performance, which differs from creativity in its reliance upon exemplars of other’s creative performance. It was found that imitation is an element of creative task performance, which is sometimes negatively, but other times positively related to creativity. Moreover, it was shown that contextual factors such as the quality of exemplars of other’s performance and presentation of such exemplars in abstract or specific terms play a powerful role in the creative process, while it was acknowledged that one’s tendencies to rely upon creative exemplars and one’s subsequent imitative or creative actions also depend on one’s dispositions to engage in social comparison, and on one’s self-regulatory focus. Imitation thus is an important factor in the creative process and worthwhile to further investigate in greater detail

Exploring Users' Perception of Collaborative Explanation Styles

Collaborative filtering systems heavily depend on user feedback expressed in product ratings to select and rank items to recommend. In this study we explore how users value different collaborative explanation styles following the user-based or item-based paradigm. Furthermore, we explore how the characteristics of these rating summarizations, like the total number of ratings and the mean rating value, influence the decisions of online users. Results, based on a choice-based conjoint experimental design, show that the mean indicator has a higher impact compared to the total number of ratings. Finally, we discuss how these empirical results can serve as an input to developing algorithms that foster items with a, consequently, higher probability of choice based on their rating summarizations or their explainability due to these ratings when ranking recommendations

TamagoCar: Using a Simulation App to explore Price Elasticity of Demand for Electricity of Electric Vehicle Users

The integration of electric vehicles (EV) into the smart grid is bounded by high variability of demand for electricity, unwillingness of consumers to change behavior as well as low degree of product familiarity. Especially the absence of real-time energy tariffs constrains the widespread use of EVs as sustainable alternatives to a combustion engine. We propose to explore the behavior of EV users with a specifically designed application, TamagoCar, which combines the users’ real world driving behavior with a simulated EV environment. We hypothesize that the EV users will adjust their demand for electricity as a function of uncertainty about future price, range anxiety, uncertainty about future travel and social influence. With our application we enable the end users to gain experience with using an EV as well as adjust their electricity demand in response to real-time price changes with respect to their individual preferences, social influence and macroeconomic conditions

Crisis performance predictability in supply chains

It is widely acknowledged that supply chain ‘glitches’ may have detrimental effects on company per

Enfoque económico psicológico del comportamiento de rebaño

El comportamiento de rebaño se refiere al fenómeno de personas que siguen<br />a una multitud durante un período dado, a veces “incluso sin considerar<br />información individual que sugiere otra cosa†(Banerjee 1992, 798). El<br />comportamiento de rebaño fue uno de los primeros temas que estudió la<br />psicología social (Van Ginneken 1992)