The Topic Pain

The topic in the recent call for papers by the Journal of Business Research (“No Pain No Gain”: Understanding and Applications of Pain in Marketing Scholarship & Practice) is very interesting! Some of the questions papers can address include: (1) How do different types of pain (e.g., physical, psychological, mental or emotional) affect consumption? (2) What is the meaning of pain in a digital world? (3) Are there different types of consumers that could be receptive, prone or averse to pain and what are their characteristics? (4) When and why does the creation painful psychological obstacles (e.g., long lines or waiting lists) or outright refusal to sell a coveted item enhances customers’ feelings of bitter satisfaction and consumer motivation to own the desired item? (5) How can pain affect, explain or facilitate other unconventional consumption practices?, and (6) Why are consumers attracted by the pain of others? I think it will be a very informative and interesting special issue.

(View the call for papers here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-business-research/about/call-for-papers).

I know people have different levels of pain tolerance - some people could handle more pain than others. I imagine a person's pain tolerance affects whether he/she is averse or receptive to pain. My guess is that a lot of consumers are averse to pain. I believe people do not want to feel pain especially when shopping or working or when on vacation. Pain is distracting. I am curious about how different types of pain affect decision-making and consumption.

I cannot wait for the special issue!

 

 

Pen And Paper

Sometimes, I just need to use pen and paper to jot down my thoughts or make edits to a document. Maybe you have noticed this in my other blogs - for example:

- In this post, I used my pen and a notebook to organize my thoughts and make major changes to my paper for the Research Methods course: http://fmooresignatureassignment3.blogspot.com/2016/08/rewrite.html. 

- In this post, I used pen and paper to jot down ideas for a presentation: https://bus7130phd.blogspot.com/2019/01/working-working.html.

- And, in this post, I started working on an assignment (a presentation) using pen and paper: http://fmoorephdbus7110.blogspot.com/2018/09/started-working-on-presentation.html. I had limited access to a computer then. I was stranded in New York at the time.

Sometimes I print the document and then make edits to it using a pen. I do this when I find it difficult to work on the electronic version of the document (on my screen). I also prefer to read some books in print. My background probably has something to do with this preference. I grew up reading 'regular' books and wrote in notebooks in school. Electronic books were not available then.

At UMBC, I recall reading research on whether it was easier/simpler/better to read from the screen or from paper.  I think it was the Readings in Human-Centered Computing course. Research shows people learn more when they read print rather than digital text.

Recommendation Systems

I first learned of recommendation systems during my first literature review course at NCU. The topic was online reviews and recommender systems were one type of system connected with online reviews. I included some information in my paper on these systems that made recommendations to users. I thought they added a lot of value (were very helpful and useful to the consumer). Today, I learned of recommendation systems for music. I found several papers on systems that use different approaches to recommend music to users. How interesting! I would like to personally test these systems. 

A Music Recommendation System Based On Psychotherapy
By: Zhiyuan Liu, Wei Xu, Wenping Zhang, Qiqi Jiang
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277256932300097X

I am all EARS: Using Open Data And Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Music Recommendations
By: Niels Bertram, Jürgen Dunkel, Ramón Hermoso
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417423008497

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employee Feedback Technologies

I found an interesting article on technologies used for employee feedback, referred to as employee feedback technologies. It is:

Employee feedback technologies in the human performance system, 2010
By Nathan Baker
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13678868.2010.501994

One of the technologies/techniques is 360-degree feedback. I was not familiar with it so I looked it up. I found a lot of resources on 360-degree systems for feedback. Here is an annotated bibliography on using 360-degree feedback in organizations:

Using 360-Degree Feedback In Organizations: An Annotated Bibliography
By: John W. Fleenor and Jeffrey Michael Prince
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Fleenor/publication/317284725_Using_360-degree_feedback_in_organizations/links/593030d145851553b67efe9b/Using-360-degree-feedback-in-organizations.pdf

This is an interesting topic!