It's the Thought that Counts: A Signed Digraph Analysis of Gift-Giving

Belk, Russell W.

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“…Theorists have posited that gifts play an important role in the context of social relationships because gifts act as markers of similarity in tastes and interests between relationship partners, signaling partner compatibility (Belk, 1976(Belk, , 1979Belk & Coon, 1993;Larsen & Watson, 2001;Schwartz, 1967;Sherry, 1983). Consistent with this idea, Davis, Hoch, and Ragsdale (1986) found that people's predictions about which products their spouse would like were driven primarily by their own product preferences.…”

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The Gift of Similarity: How Good and Bad Gifts Influence Relationships

Dunn¹,

Huntsinger²,

Lun³

et al. 2008

Social Cognition

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We tested the hypothesis that gifts act as markers of interpersonal similarity for both acquaintances and close relationship partners. Participants were led to believe that a new opposite sex acquaintance (Experiment 1) or romantic partner (Experiment 2) had selected either a desirable or undesirable gift for them. In Experiment 1, men viewed themselves as less similar to their new acquaintance after receiving a bad versus good gift from her, whereas women's perceived similarity ratings were unaffected by gift quality. In Experiment 2, men reported decreased similarity to their romantic partner after receiving a bad gift, whereas women responded to the bad gift more positively; perceived similarity, in turn, had an impact on participants' evaluations of the relationship's future potential. This research highlights the need for more experimental work on gift-giving, which has been largely overlooked by mainstream social psychologists despite its economic and interpersonal significance.

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The Gift of Similarity: How Good and Bad Gifts Influence Relationships

Dunn¹,

Huntsinger²,

Lun³

et al. 2008

Social Cognition

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“…11 Chevalier, et al (2003) also find that changes in wholesale prices at this chain are small in absolute as well as in relative terms. 12 See, for example, Belk (1976), Cheal (1987), and Otnes, et al (1993). 13 The costs of price adjustment theory, which, as Muller, et al (2002) have argued, lead to the holiday price rigidity for both branded and private label products, is obviously an exception.…”

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Private label price rigidity during holiday periods

Müller¹,

Bergen

Dutta

et al. 2006

Applied Economics Letters

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Using weekly retail transaction scanner price data from a large U.S supermarket chain, we find significantly higher retail price rigidity for private label products than for nationally branded products during the Christmas and Thanksgiving holiday periods relative to the rest of the year. The finding cannot be explained by changes in holiday period promotional practices because we find that private label promotions appear to diminish at least as much as national brands. The increased rigidity of private label products relative to national brands is only partially accounted for by increased rigidity of wholesale prices. After ruling out other potential explanations, we suggest that the higher private label price rigidity might be due to the increased emphasis on social consumption during holiday periods, raising the customers' value of nationally branded products relative to the private labels.

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“…Thus, gift giving, as well as exchanging, is sharing, and it results in ownership transfer. Likewise, the act of giving, called gift giving, is a way of transferring ownership by sharing (Belk, 1976;Sherry Jr., 1983). Therefore, we have identified different types of sharing.…”

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A Proposal for a Typology of Sharing Economy

Petrini

Freitas²,

Silveira

2017

RAM, Rev. Adm. Mackenzie

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It's the Thought that Counts: A Signed Digraph Analysis of Gift-Giving

Cited by 204 publications

References 23 publications

The Gift of Similarity: How Good and Bad Gifts Influence Relationships

The Gift of Similarity: How Good and Bad Gifts Influence Relationships

Private label price rigidity during holiday periods

A Proposal for a Typology of Sharing Economy

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