Journal of Service Research, Ahead of Print.
Consumers’ multisensory preferences bring new ideas to service and experience design—yet do consumers always react favorably to sensory complexity? This research examines variation by time of day in how consumers respond to complex sensory experiences (e.g., purchase behavior, choice, and liking). Specifically, we theorize that arousal levels increase over the course of the day, which increases the perceived fit of complex sensory experiences, leading to more favorable reactions—a pattern that is more prominent among evening than morning chronotypes. A set of five studies provides support for this theorizing and provides important implications for service providers regarding how to vary their sensory offerings and promotions over the course of the day.
Simple Morning and Complex Night: Time of Day and Complex Sensory Experiences
Evaluation of the concerns of Spanish university students in the face of current major challenges
Publication date: April 2024
Source: Evaluation and Program Planning, Volume 103
Author(s): Javier Cifuentes-Faura, Ursula Faura-Martínez, Matilde Lafuente-Lechuga
Fair share for health and care: gender and the undervaluation of health and care work
Prevalence, lived experiences and user profiles in e-cigarette use: A mixed methods study among French college students
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants
International Journal of Behavioral Development, Ahead of Print.
Previous studies found an impact of language familiarity on face recognition in 9- and 12-month-olds. Own race faces are better recognized when associated with native language, whereas for other race faces, it is with non-native language. The aim of this study is to investigate if language familiarity can also influence abstract pattern recognition. We tested 9- to 12-month-old monolingual infants with a visual paired-comparison task. During a 30-s familiarization phase, infants were shown an image of abstract patterns associated with an auditory soundtrack of a speaker reciting a story either in their native (French) or in a non-native language (German). After the familiarization, the familiar and a new abstract pattern were displayed side by side for the recognition test. We found a significant preference for the novel object in the native language condition but not in the non-native condition. These results suggest that language familiarity effects on infant memory are not specific to faces but also influence, on a larger scale, how infants process their immediate visual environment.
Push to end poverty for students devoted to the poor
One in five social work undergraduates are withdrawing from study due to financial stress, according to research commissioned by the Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education (ACHSWE).