Social Media’s impact on Intellectual Property Rights

This is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Handbook of Research on Counterfeiting and Illicit Trade, edited by Peggy E. Chaudhry, published in 2017 by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366451. This material is for private use only, and cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher.Peer reviewe

Bankruptcy Code Section 327(a)--New Interpretation Forces Attorneys to Waive Fees or Wave Good-Bye to Clients

TesisEl presente estudio; tuvo como objetivo: Formular un plan de mejoramiento de comunicación interna en la Facultad de Ingeniería Zootecnia de la Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo de Lambayeque, Año 2016; planteándose el siguiente problema de investigación: ¿Es posible la implementación de un plan de mejoramiento de la comunicación interna en la Facultad de Ingeniería Zootecnia de la Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo de Lambayeque, 2016?. Para recolectar los datos se utilizó un cuestionario de 12 preguntas de respuesta múltiple, la muestra fue de tipo censal. Fue una investigación de tipo descriptivo, de diseño no experimental y además prospectiva. Los resultados de la investigación muestran que la gestión de la comunicación interna en la FIZ es de nivel medio, lográndose evidenciar oportunidades de mejora en los procesos de comunicación interna, comunicación descendente, medios de comunicación y en la política de inversión en comunicación. Las dimensiones de la comunicación interna de mayor puntuación fueron Integración y participación de la Comunicación Interna, Comunicación interna entre las Áreas y Dependencias de la UNPRG e Información de la Imagen de la UNPRG. En consecuencia la problemática revelada conllevaría a formular alternativas que permitan una comunicación interna eficiente que genere espacios comunicativos e incentive la participación e integración de los colaboradores de la Facultad de Ingeniería Zootecnia

Gender and innovation processes in wheat-based systems

This WHEAT report is based on 43 village case studies from eight countries set in diverse wheat-based farming regions of the Global South

Immediate and Delayed Emotional Consequences of Indulgence: The Moderating Influence of Personality Type on Mixed Emotions

The majority of literature looking at self-control dilemmas has focused on short-term positive and long-term negative affective outcomes arising from indulgence. In two studies, we find evidence for more complex emotional responses after indulgent consumption. We show that consumers feel simultaneous mixtures of both positive and negative emotions in response to indulgences and that the specific components of those emotional mixtures vary, depending on differences in individual impulsivity. Further, these mixtures are resolved differently over time, leading to differences in subsequent choices. In addition we show that more prudent consumers are likely to seize an opportunity to get rid of, or “launder,” their negative emotions after an indulgence by subsequently making utilitarian versus hedonic choices

Gender and innovation processes in maize-based systems

This MAIZE report offers a panorama of the gender dimensions of local agricultural innovation processes in the context of maize-based farming systems and livelihoods

Undoing the Effects of Seizing and Freezing: Decreasing Defensive Processing of Personally Relevant Messages

Health messages are directed at those who are at risk of incurring adverse consequences. However, previous experiments have found that people process personally relevant health messages in a biased, defensive manner. We examine the role of elaboration as a mechanism to encourage less biased processing of personally relevant health appeals. Results demonstrate that high‐relevance consumers freeze on the threatening information, leading to lower change appraisal (perceived severity, self‐efficacy, and response efficacy) and decreased message persuasion. For these individuals, renewed elaboration on the consequences of caffeine (Experiment 1) and olestra (Experiment 2) consumption reduces defensive processing. This elaboration “unfreezes” message processing, leading to greater change appraisal and increased persuasion. These experiments provide guidelines for practitioners to design more effective messages

Can Mixed Emotions Peacefully Co-Exist?

This research sheds insight on the psychological impact of mixed emotions on attitudes. In three experiments, we show that persuasion appeals that highlight conflicting emotions (e.g., both happiness and sadness) lead to less favorable attitudes for individuals with a lower propensity to accept duality (e.g., Anglo Americans, younger adults) relative to those with a higher propensity (e.g., Asian Americans, older adults). The effect appears to be due to increased levels of felt discomfort that arise for those with a lower, but not higher, propensity to accept duality when exposed to mixed emotional appeals. Theoretical implications regarding boundary conditions of emotional dissonance and distinctions between emotional and cognitive dissonance are discussed

Looking for My Self: Identity-Driven Attention Allocation

This research builds on the motivational aspects of identity salience, finding that social identities direct the allocation of attention in identity‐syntonic ways. Drawing from identity‐based motivation (Oyserman, 2009; Reed, et al., 2012) we suggest individuals use attention to enhance identity‐fit; selectively focusing on cues and stimuli that are identity‐consistent. In two studies we find that activating a social identity drives preferential attention toward identity‐relevant stimuli. Using a novel paradigm, Study 1 demonstrates that individuals strategically focus attention on identity‐consistent emotional stimuli, while also shifting attention away from identity‐inconsistent emotional stimuli. Using a dot‐probe paradigm, Study 2 extends these results to show that individuals allocate attention toward both emotional and non‐emotional (semantic associates) stimuli that are identity‐consistent, and away from those that are incompatible. Consistent with theories suggesting cognition and perception are constructed (James, 1890/1983) and that identities direct and influence meaning‐making (Oyserman, 2009; Reed et al., 2012), we find that social identities drive attention allocation, with identity‐consistent stimuli receiving greater attention; suggesting that an identity\u27s sense‐making begins with motivated attention toward perceiving an identity‐consistent environment