Robert J Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 84682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Makes Content Engaging? How Emotional Dynamics Shape Success
Some cultural products (e.g., books and movies) catch on and become popular, while others fail. Why? While some have argued that success is unpredictable, we suggest that period-to-period shifts in sentiment-what we term sentiment volatility-enhance engagement. Automated sentiment analysis of over 4,000 movies demonstrates that more volatile movies are evaluated more positively. Consistent with the notion that sentiment volatility makes experienc…
Greenhouse gas emissions and energy use associated with production of individual self-selected US diets
Human food systems are a key contributor to climate change and other environmental concerns. While the environmental impacts of diets have been evaluated at the aggregate level, few studies, and none for the US, have focused on individual self-selected diets. Such work is essential for estimating a distribution of impacts, which, in turn, is key to recommending policies for driving consumer demand towards lower environmental impacts. To estimate …
When Form Trumps Substance: A Dynamic Analysis of Microblogging During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Primary Debates
Using simulations to forecast homeowner response to sea level rise in South Florida: Will they stay or will they go
A Novel Financial Market for Mitigating Hurricane Risk. Part II: Empirical Validation
This paper explores the empirical features of a novel commodity option trading instrument described in the companion paper (Part I) that allows market participants to hedge against the risk that a coastal county or region in the eastern United States will experience a hurricane landfall. In this instrument investors can speculate on whether a landfall event will occur in any one of a number of coastal counties or regions, with option prices being…
Spillover Effects: How Consumers Respond to Unexpected Changes in Price and Quality
This article examines how unexpected changes in the marketing mix of one product in a retail setting can influence demand for other, unrelated, items. Results from two laboratory studies show that spillover effects can occur in response to both positive and negative changes in either the price or quality of a product, such that positive changes increase total spending on other items and negative changes reduce it. The results also demonstrate tha…
Heuristics and Biases in Timing the Replacement of Durable Products
The process by which individuals make recurrent decisions about when to replace durable goods is examined. Two experiments are reported in which subjects play the role of purchasing agents who must repeatedly decide whether to keep a currently owned manufacturing device or replace it with a superior new one, given uncertainty about the future performance of new and currently owned machines. Replacement patterns are compared with those that would …
Consumer Multiattribute Judgments under Attribute-Weight Uncertainty
This article examines how multiattribute impressions are formed in riskless choice and judgment when there is uncertainty or ambiguity associated with attribute-importance weights. Building on previous results in the modeling of ambiguity in probabilities, a mathematical theory of multiattribute judgments under weight uncertainty is developed. The theory incorporates framing effects for ambiguous weights in multiattribute judgments, similar to th…
Information Overload and the Nonrobustness of Linear Models: A Comment on Keller and Staelin
Robert J. Meyer, Eric J. Johnson; Information Overload and the Nonrobustness of Linear Models: A Comment on Keller and Staelin, Journal of Consumer Researc
The Learning of Multiattribute Judgment Policies
Journal Article The Learning of Multiattribute Judgment Policies Get access Robert J. Meyer Robert J. Meyer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 14, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 155–173, https://doi.org/10.1086/209103 Published: 01 September 1987 Article history Received: 01 August 1985 Revision received: 01 February 1987 Published: 01 September 1987
Normative versus Heuristic Models of Residential Search Behavior: An Empirical Comparison
In this paper is reported an empirical comparison between two models of residential search behavior: a normative stopping model derived by Phipps and Laverty and a heuristic model proposed by Meyer. This normative rule is exemplary of a large class of models in economics in which it is assumed that individuals act as if they maximize rational expectations when making sequential decisions. The heuristic rule, in contrast, is exemplary of descripti…
Compensatory Choice Models of Noncompensatory Processes: The Effect of Varying Context
The sensitivity of the parameters and fit of compensatory choice models to contextual variations in information processing strategies is examined. A set of predictions is derived concerning specification errors which may arise when a compensatory model misrepresents a “true,” noncompensatory choice process. These predictions are then tested in an experimental analysis of apartment choice behavior. Logit analysis and protocol analysis are employed…
Changes in perceived travel cost and time for the work trip during a period of increasing gasoline costs
The Effects of Leaderless Encounter Group Experiences on Helping Skills Training
The effects of an audiotaped leaderless encounter group on training in basic helping skills were examined. Trainees undergoing the Danish and Hauer (1973) training program were assigned to a weekly encounter group or to a didactic lecture-discussion group. No changes in trainees' self-actualization, trait or state anxiety, or rated verbal helping behavior were found due to participation in the encounter group. Significant positive changes in verb…
New Wine Fom Old Wineskins: Marital Power Research
Methodological sophistication and conceptual complexity in the area of marital power has resulted in more questions than answers. The greatest danger of such a situation is a cessation of research motivated by fear of added mistakes, and supposedly justified by the lack of better measures and conceptualizations. Two particular stumbling blocks have been annoying differences between husbands' and wives' perceptions and low correlations between dif…
Small magazine survival
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What Makes Content Engaging? How Emotional Dynamics Shape Success
Some cultural products (e.g., books and movies) catch on and become popular, while others fail. Why? While some have argued that success is unpredictable, we suggest that period-to-period shifts in sentiment-what we term sentiment volatility-enhance engagement. Automated sentiment analysis of over 4,000 movies demonstrates that more volatile movies are evaluated more positively. Consistent with the notion that sentiment volatility makes experienc…
Compensatory Choice Models of Noncompensatory Processes: The Effect of Varying Context
The sensitivity of the parameters and fit of compensatory choice models to contextual variations in information processing strategies is examined. A set of predictions is derived concerning specification errors which may arise when a compensatory model misrepresents a “true,” noncompensatory choice process. These predictions are then tested in an experimental analysis of apartment choice behavior. Logit analysis and protocol analysis are employed…
The Learning of Multiattribute Judgment Policies
Journal Article The Learning of Multiattribute Judgment Policies Get access Robert J. Meyer Robert J. Meyer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 14, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 155–173, https://doi.org/10.1086/209103 Published: 01 September 1987 Article history Received: 01 August 1985 Revision received: 01 February 1987 Published: 01 September 1987
Consumer Multiattribute Judgments under Attribute-Weight Uncertainty
This article examines how multiattribute impressions are formed in riskless choice and judgment when there is uncertainty or ambiguity associated with attribute-importance weights. Building on previous results in the modeling of ambiguity in probabilities, a mathematical theory of multiattribute judgments under weight uncertainty is developed. The theory incorporates framing effects for ambiguous weights in multiattribute judgments, similar to th…
Using simulations to forecast homeowner response to sea level rise in South Florida: Will they stay or will they go
Heuristics and Biases in Timing the Replacement of Durable Products
The process by which individuals make recurrent decisions about when to replace durable goods is examined. Two experiments are reported in which subjects play the role of purchasing agents who must repeatedly decide whether to keep a currently owned manufacturing device or replace it with a superior new one, given uncertainty about the future performance of new and currently owned machines. Replacement patterns are compared with those that would …
Spillover Effects: How Consumers Respond to Unexpected Changes in Price and Quality
This article examines how unexpected changes in the marketing mix of one product in a retail setting can influence demand for other, unrelated, items. Results from two laboratory studies show that spillover effects can occur in response to both positive and negative changes in either the price or quality of a product, such that positive changes increase total spending on other items and negative changes reduce it. The results also demonstrate tha…
Information Overload and the Nonrobustness of Linear Models: A Comment on Keller and Staelin
Robert J. Meyer, Eric J. Johnson; Information Overload and the Nonrobustness of Linear Models: A Comment on Keller and Staelin, Journal of Consumer Researc
New Wine Fom Old Wineskins: Marital Power Research
Methodological sophistication and conceptual complexity in the area of marital power has resulted in more questions than answers. The greatest danger of such a situation is a cessation of research motivated by fear of added mistakes, and supposedly justified by the lack of better measures and conceptualizations. Two particular stumbling blocks have been annoying differences between husbands' and wives' perceptions and low correlations between dif…
Normative versus Heuristic Models of Residential Search Behavior: An Empirical Comparison
In this paper is reported an empirical comparison between two models of residential search behavior: a normative stopping model derived by Phipps and Laverty and a heuristic model proposed by Meyer. This normative rule is exemplary of a large class of models in economics in which it is assumed that individuals act as if they maximize rational expectations when making sequential decisions. The heuristic rule, in contrast, is exemplary of descripti…
Festivals U. S. A
Small magazine survival
New Wine Fom Old Wineskins: Marital Power Research
Methodological sophistication and conceptual complexity in the area of marital power has resulted in more questions than answers. The greatest danger of such a situation is a cessation of research motivated by fear of added mistakes, and supposedly justified by the lack of better measures and conceptualizations. Two particular stumbling blocks have been annoying differences between husbands' and wives' perceptions and low correlations between dif…
The Effects of Leaderless Encounter Group Experiences on Helping Skills Training
The effects of an audiotaped leaderless encounter group on training in basic helping skills were examined. Trainees undergoing the Danish and Hauer (1973) training program were assigned to a weekly encounter group or to a didactic lecture-discussion group. No changes in trainees' self-actualization, trait or state anxiety, or rated verbal helping behavior were found due to participation in the encounter group. Significant positive changes in verb…
Changes in perceived travel cost and time for the work trip during a period of increasing gasoline costs
Compensatory Choice Models of Noncompensatory Processes: The Effect of Varying Context
The sensitivity of the parameters and fit of compensatory choice models to contextual variations in information processing strategies is examined. A set of predictions is derived concerning specification errors which may arise when a compensatory model misrepresents a “true,” noncompensatory choice process. These predictions are then tested in an experimental analysis of apartment choice behavior. Logit analysis and protocol analysis are employed…
Normative versus Heuristic Models of Residential Search Behavior: An Empirical Comparison
In this paper is reported an empirical comparison between two models of residential search behavior: a normative stopping model derived by Phipps and Laverty and a heuristic model proposed by Meyer. This normative rule is exemplary of a large class of models in economics in which it is assumed that individuals act as if they maximize rational expectations when making sequential decisions. The heuristic rule, in contrast, is exemplary of descripti…
The Learning of Multiattribute Judgment Policies
Journal Article The Learning of Multiattribute Judgment Policies Get access Robert J. Meyer Robert J. Meyer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 14, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 155–173, https://doi.org/10.1086/209103 Published: 01 September 1987 Article history Received: 01 August 1985 Revision received: 01 February 1987 Published: 01 September 1987
Information Overload and the Nonrobustness of Linear Models: A Comment on Keller and Staelin
Robert J. Meyer, Eric J. Johnson; Information Overload and the Nonrobustness of Linear Models: A Comment on Keller and Staelin, Journal of Consumer Researc
Consumer Multiattribute Judgments under Attribute-Weight Uncertainty
This article examines how multiattribute impressions are formed in riskless choice and judgment when there is uncertainty or ambiguity associated with attribute-importance weights. Building on previous results in the modeling of ambiguity in probabilities, a mathematical theory of multiattribute judgments under weight uncertainty is developed. The theory incorporates framing effects for ambiguous weights in multiattribute judgments, similar to th…
Heuristics and Biases in Timing the Replacement of Durable Products
The process by which individuals make recurrent decisions about when to replace durable goods is examined. Two experiments are reported in which subjects play the role of purchasing agents who must repeatedly decide whether to keep a currently owned manufacturing device or replace it with a superior new one, given uncertainty about the future performance of new and currently owned machines. Replacement patterns are compared with those that would …
Spillover Effects: How Consumers Respond to Unexpected Changes in Price and Quality
This article examines how unexpected changes in the marketing mix of one product in a retail setting can influence demand for other, unrelated, items. Results from two laboratory studies show that spillover effects can occur in response to both positive and negative changes in either the price or quality of a product, such that positive changes increase total spending on other items and negative changes reduce it. The results also demonstrate tha…
A Novel Financial Market for Mitigating Hurricane Risk. Part II: Empirical Validation
This paper explores the empirical features of a novel commodity option trading instrument described in the companion paper (Part I) that allows market participants to hedge against the risk that a coastal county or region in the eastern United States will experience a hurricane landfall. In this instrument investors can speculate on whether a landfall event will occur in any one of a number of coastal counties or regions, with option prices being…
When Form Trumps Substance: A Dynamic Analysis of Microblogging During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Primary Debates
Using simulations to forecast homeowner response to sea level rise in South Florida: Will they stay or will they go
Greenhouse gas emissions and energy use associated with production of individual self-selected US diets
Human food systems are a key contributor to climate change and other environmental concerns. While the environmental impacts of diets have been evaluated at the aggregate level, few studies, and none for the US, have focused on individual self-selected diets. Such work is essential for estimating a distribution of impacts, which, in turn, is key to recommending policies for driving consumer demand towards lower environmental impacts. To estimate …
What Makes Content Engaging? How Emotional Dynamics Shape Success
Some cultural products (e.g., books and movies) catch on and become popular, while others fail. Why? While some have argued that success is unpredictable, we suggest that period-to-period shifts in sentiment-what we term sentiment volatility-enhance engagement. Automated sentiment analysis of over 4,000 movies demonstrates that more volatile movies are evaluated more positively. Consistent with the notion that sentiment volatility makes experienc…
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