Winning heads and hearts? How websites encourage prosocial behaviour
Slattery, P. and Vidgen, Richard and Finnegan, P. (2021) Winning heads and hearts? How websites encourage prosocial behaviour. Behaviour & Information Technology 40 (9), pp. 933-961. ISSN 0144-929X.
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Abstract
Little is known about whether appeals to the ‘head’ (i.e., argument) and the ‘heart’ (i.e., emotion) are effective on websites encouraging prosocial behaviour. We find that appeals to both the head and the heart motivate online prosocial behaviour. Our findings suggest that i) appeals to the heart are more effective than appeals to the head, ii) positive and negative appeals to the heart have similar effectiveness, and iii) that mixed appeals to the heart are ineffective.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available online at the link above. |
| School: | School of Business, Economics & Informatics > Computer Science and Information Systems |
| Depositing User: | Richard Vidgen |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2020 11:39 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2022 19:17 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31057 |
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