University of Georgia

About: University of Georgia is a education organization based out in Athens, Georgia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gene. The organization has 41934 authors who have published 93622 publications receiving 3713212 citations. The organization is also known as: UGA & Franklin College.

Inexperience and experience with online stores: the importance of TAM and trust

Abstract: An e-vendor's website inseparably embodies an interaction with the vendor and an interaction with the IT website interface. Accordingly, research has shown two sets of unrelated usage antecedents by customers: (1) customer trust in the e-vendor and (2) customer assessments of the IT itself, specifically the perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use of the website as depicted in the technology acceptance model (TAM). Research suggests, however, that the degree and impact of trust, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use change with experience. Using existing, validated scales, this study describes a free-simulation experiment that compares the degree and relative importance of customer trust in an e-vendor vis-a-vis TAM constructs of the website, between potential (i.e., new) customers and repeat (i.e., experienced) ones. The study found that repeat customers trusted the e-vendor more, perceived the website to be more useful and easier to use, and were more inclined to purchase from it. The data also show that while repeat customers' purchase intentions were influenced by both their trust in the e-vendor and their perception that the website was useful, potential customers were not influenced by perceived usefulness, but only by their trust in the e-vendor. Implications of this apparent trust-barrier and guidelines for practice are discussed.

Egos inflating over time: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.

Abstract: A cross-temporal meta-analysis found that narcissism levels have risen over the generations in 85 samples of American college students who completed the 40-item forced-choice Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) between 1979 and 2006 (total n=16,475) Mean narcissism scores were significantly correlated with year of data collection when weighted by sample size (beta=53, p<001) Since 1982, NPI scores have increased 033 standard deviation Thus, almost two-thirds of recent college students are above the mean 1979-1985 narcissism score, a 30% increase The results complement previous studies finding increases in other individualistic traits such as assertiveness, agency, self-esteem, and extraversion

Visualizing metabolically labeled glycoconjugates of living cells by copper-free and fast huisgen cycloadditions.

Abstract: Azides, which are extremely rare in biological systems, are emerging as attractive chemical handles for bioconjugation.[1–5] In particular, the CuI catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cyclization of azides with terminal alkynes to give stable triazoles[6, 7] has been employed for the tagging of a variety of biomolecules,[8–12] activity-based protein profiling,[13] and the chemical synthesis of microarrays and small molecule libraries.[14]