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Showing 1 to 20 of 331 for “"conspicuous"”.
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Conspicuous Consumption and American Political Behavior
… is susceptible to exploitation in the form of conspicuous consumption as defined by Thorstein Veblen. The analyses that follow will test the degree to which Americans who demonstrate more traditional forms of conspicuous consumption also tend to show more activity in political venues. While the …
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Conspicuous Consumption, Marketing, and Economic Development in Nigeria
… western-educated elite whose members engage in conspicuous consumption and are also known to have a high import-propensity. Their preference for imports, when both the imported and locally-made versions of the same product are equivalent, is often seen as one facet of conspicuous consumption …
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"Conspicuous Consumption:" Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, 1882-1915
<p>This thesis argues that the health-seeker’s quest for climatic cures persisted after the germ theory of disease began to alter medical approaches to tuberculosis after its announcement in 1882. Buoyed by anti-modern sentiments and a lack of effective medicinal interventions, physicians continued …
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"Conspicuous Consumption:" Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, 1882-1915
<p>This thesis argues that the health-seeker’s quest for climatic cures persisted after the germ theory of disease began to alter medical approaches to tuberculosis after its announcement in 1882. Buoyed by anti-modern sentiments and a lack of effective medicinal interventions, physicians continued …
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The Horse: Conspicuous Consumption of Embodied Masculinity in South Asia, 1600-1850
In this dissertation, I analyze the role the horse and horse culture played in early modern South Asia through the lens of the genre of horse treatises (<italic>farasnama</italic>) produced in the Subcontinent in Persian. My analysis of the <italic>farasnama</italic> ties in directly with the new …
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Conspicuous female ornamentation and male mate preference of Threespine Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Sexual selection drives the evolution of exaggerated male ornaments (traits showing little function outside social interactions) in many animal species. Female ornamentation is now acknowledged also to be common but is generally less well understood. One example is the recently documented red …
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An investigation into conspicuous consumption in a transitional economy: A study of emerging urban Vietnamese consumers
Conspicuous consumption is an interesting facet of consumersa?? desire for worldly goods, and has both theoretical and managerial import for marketers and consumer researchers. This study investigates conspicuous consumption in the context of Vietnam, a transitional economy where the behavior is …
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Non-Target Emotional Stimuli Must Be Highly Conspicuous in Order to Break through the Attentional Blink
… the AB when CDIs are also extremely visually conspicuous. Thus, emotional valence alone is insufficient to break through the AB.
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Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve: The Effects of Conspicuous Compassion on Identity Signaling and Charitable Behavior
<p>Conspicuous compassion is one type of prosocial behavior that involves the purchase and wearing of merchandise that supports a cause. This research considers the effects that conspicuous compassion has on signaling to others and signaling to the self and the factors that influence these types of …
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Conspicuous by their absence: Bearing witness to the silenced voices of black women in the criminal justice system
Despite being the most overrepresented group of women in the Criminal Justice System (CJS), a significant lack of attention has been paid to Black women in academic literature and government policy in relation to this disparity. Using a Black feminist lens, this thesis seeks to illuminate the …
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Social media performance of user generated content and its relationship with conspicuous consumption: through the lens of the expectation confirmation theory
Early theories of conspicuous consumption proposed a framework in which individuals attempt to imitate the consumption patterns of others that maintain a higher social status. This results in individuals ostentatiously displaying their consumption patterns in order to reinforce their social status. …
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The rise of the 'Instagram economy' phenomenon in a South African context : An exploration of how conspicuous consumption on Instagram contributes to brand value creation
The number of brands using Instagram as a branding tool is steadily rising and so too is the rate of brand related consumer Interactions on social media. The sociocultural shifts in behavioural norms on Instagram have facilitated an increase in social word-of mouth that is surpassing traditional …
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Dante's Poetics of Absence
… it examines those absences which Dante renders conspicuous, and proposes the importance of the interpretation of conspicuous absence in the poem: a subject which has only ever been examined in passing in Dante scholarship to date. Part 1 of the thesis focuses on Dante’s use of silence, both as a …
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Impacts And Implications Of Polytypism On The Evolution Of Aposematic Coloration
… a comdefensive strategy whereby prey species use conspicuous signals (i.e., bright coloration) to warn predators of the risks of predation due to a secondary defense. Theoretical, lab, and field experiments have demonstrated that individuals who project novel conspicuous signals should experience …
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Ecological Assembly of Leaf-Litter Anuran Communities Across a Neotropical Land-Bridge Archipelago
The conspicuous variation in time and space of richness and composition of biological communities has intrigued ecologists for decades. In this dissertation, I explore the patterns and ecological mechanisms that underlie the community assembly of leaf-litter anurans on a Neotropical archipelago. I …
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Consumer Evaluation of Innovativeness in High-Tech Consumer Durables
… as innovators (or non-innovators) and as conspicuous consumers (or non-conspicuous-consumers).<br/><br/>The hypotheses to be tested were as follows;<br/><br/>HI: Consumers are able to ascribe degrees of innovativeness to new product offerings.<br/><br/>H2: Innovators will judge …
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The logic of practice - understanding the Chinese newly rich consumers' status consumption in luxury fashion clothes.
… power in the luxury sector through their conspicuous consumption. Chinese consumers lack of cultural capital and inexperience in the purchase and use of material commodities in the luxury consumption field has led many to associate their conspicuous consumption with pecuniary display of …
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THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC POSTING, GOAL SETTING, AND POSTING PLACEMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF DIRECT SERVICE PROFESSIONALS’ COMPLETION OF REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION
… the effect of the placement of the postings in a conspicuous versus non conspicuous location with staff completion of required daily documentation. Results in both rooms indicated that posting group feedback alone did not have as much effect on staff performance unless paired with goal setting. …
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