a b s t r a c tThe new standards of technological and flexible arrangements have made virtual work prevalent for almost everyone in all levels of an organization. Whether in a virtual or traditional setting, current working conditions allow anyone to collaborate, work and interact with others through electronic means of communication, thereby creating a lack of face-to-face contact. Even though the dynamics of virtuality have been widely elaborated at the team level, there are still many unknowns about the impacts of virtuality experienced at an individual level. This paper aims to shed light on the relationship between workplace social isolation, job satisfaction, perceived performance and turnover intention comparing individual responses to team virtuality and task virtuality. Our findings propose that there are statistically significant relations between individual task virtuality, workplace social isolation, satisfaction, perceived performance and turnover intention in organizations. The results also reveal that task virtuality is a better predictor than team virtuality in estimating workplace social isolation and turnover intention. (M.A. Orhan).Technological integration in business has changed workplace dynamics over the last few decades. With the new forms of organizations and sub-units, both jobs and methods of communication have become more dependent on information technology. This shift has resulted in the drastic change of many facets of a variety of jobs http://dx.

Seven experiments were conducted which measured changes in the subjects '

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(This is a sample cover image for this issue. The actual cover is not yet available at this time.)This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. a b s t r a c tThe endowment effect is the finding that minimum selling prices for a particular good exceed maximum buying prices. We build on and extend previous research showing that emotions influence the endowment effect, and reveal that the two negatively valenced decision-related emotions, regret and disappointment, have distinct effects on the valuation of an object. We found that an induction of regret eliminates the classic endowment effect, whereas an induction of disappointment reverses it. The findings demonstrate the necessity of a specific emotion approach to understand the effects on decision making.

Two studies investigated the joint effect of in‐group identification and experimenter's membership status on the overt emergence of in‐group bias. In Expt 1, 117 male Belgian undergraduates were asked to describe Belgian vs. North African students of their university. As predicted, the evaluative meaning of the descriptions, as a function of the experimenter's provenance, showed an in‐group bias when the experimenter was an ‘outsider’ as opposed to when he was an ‘insider’. In Expt 2, 50 female undergraduates were first asked to report their identification with each of four groups. Experimenter's Provenance was then manipulated in the same way as in Expt 1 and the subjects were asked to allocate money to the groups. It was predicted and found that subjects would show stronger in‐group bias when comparing an in‐group to an out‐group in the outsider condition than in the insider condition, and that no differences in favouritism would arise when comparisons concerned out‐groups only. The general conclusion of the two experiments is that overt manifestations of in‐group favouritism are an additive function of in‐group identification and search for social coordination with the experimenter on in‐group superiority, the latter aspect being stronger when the experimenter is perceived as an outsider (i.e. someone with whom social coordination is not taken for granted) relative to the subject's real‐life membership category. Some implications are drawn with respect to the minimal group paradigm.

1 989) 'Controversies in the social explanation of psychological behavior'. European Journal of Social Psychology, 19,345-368 Psychology, 26: 309-20. London: Academic Press. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 26: 446-456.

At first, it was demonstrated that social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954) predicting a need for moderate (instead of maximal)

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