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A Sad Fact of Life: It's Actually Smart to Be Mean Online

2 points by jcr 12y ago

jcr 12y ago
The submitted wired article is light reading, has a bad title, and lacks supporting references, so it's fluffy and link-bait-ish even if it's based on good research. I've left the original title intact, but here are the missing references mentioned in the article. Bryan Gibson - Central Michigan University http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/ http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/ http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/vita.htm http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/vita.htm Paper: "Wanting To Appear Smart: Hypercriticism As An Impression Management Strategy" (2008) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15298860701668986 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15298860701668986 Teresa Amabile - Harvard Business School http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6409&facInfo=pub http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6409&fac... She has a few related papers/works, but the main one is "Brilliant but Cruel" from 1981 (pub 1983). I haven't been able to find a link to a free copy of this Amabile paper, so if anyone has a link, it would be appreciated. The link below is just the abstract: Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators (1983) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022103183900343?np=y http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00221031839... The following two related papers cite the one from Amabile: The Influences of Negativity and Quality on the Helpfulness Of Online Reviews (2011) http://www.korfiatis.info/webpagen/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/2011-ICIS.pdf http://www.korfiatis.info/webpagen/wp-content/papercite-data... Measuring the Value of Social Dynamics in Online Product Ratings Forums (2009) http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228314553_Measuring_the_Value_of_Social_Dynamics_in_Online_Product_Ratings_Forums/file/72e7e523c3193cca22.pdf http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228314553_Measuring_...

2 points by jcr 12y ago

jcr 12y ago

The submitted wired article is light reading, has a bad title, and lacks supporting references, so it's fluffy and link-bait-ish even if it's based on good research. I've left the original title intact, but here are the missing references mentioned in the article. Bryan Gibson - Central Michigan University http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/ http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/ http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/vita.htm http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/bryan_gibson/vita.htm Paper: "Wanting To Appear Smart: Hypercriticism As An Impression Management Strategy" (2008) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15298860701668986 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15298860701668986 Teresa Amabile - Harvard Business School http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6409&facInfo=pub http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6409&fac... She has a few related papers/works, but the main one is "Brilliant but Cruel" from 1981 (pub 1983). I haven't been able to find a link to a free copy of this Amabile paper, so if anyone has a link, it would be appreciated. The link below is just the abstract: Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators (1983) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022103183900343?np=y http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00221031839... The following two related papers cite the one from Amabile: The Influences of Negativity and Quality on the Helpfulness Of Online Reviews (2011) http://www.korfiatis.info/webpagen/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/2011-ICIS.pdf http://www.korfiatis.info/webpagen/wp-content/papercite-data... Measuring the Value of Social Dynamics in Online Product Ratings Forums (2009) http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228314553_Measuring_the_Value_of_Social_Dynamics_in_Online_Product_Ratings_Forums/file/72e7e523c3193cca22.pdf http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228314553_Measuring_...