Nice Guys Research Articles

No More the Nice Guy: Coping with Abusive Supervision through Service Sabotage Behaviours

‘Atithi Devo Bhav’, implying that guests must be treated as Gods, is the philosophical belief of Indian society indicating the importance of treating the customers with utmost respect and courtesy. The current study examines service sabotage behaviours by utilizing time-lagged method to collect data in three waves from 332 employees from Indian hotel industry. The study highlights the effects of abusive supervision on the employees who perceive disrespect, public humiliation or rude supervisory behaviours towards them as breach of psychological contract, and they retaliate by displaying deviant workplace behaviour such as service sabotage. The unique proposition of the research is to investigate the sequential mediating role of psychological contract violation and retaliation intention on the relationship between abusive supervision and service sabotage. The research utilizes psychological contract theory and frustration–aggression theory to draw logical inferences from the findings. Findings indicate that when employees perceive mistreatment or injustice, they experience psychological contract violation that instigates an urge to retaliate against the unfair treatment by engaging in negative service behaviours, for example, sabotage. Therefore, the hospitality organizations must implement practices and processes to take care of any unjust, unfair or hostile behaviour at play in the organization, as the success of the industry is dependent on the service quality and frontline employees’ encounters with the customer. The study provides some interesting and useful managerial and theoretical implications.

Do Nice Guys Finish Last? Prosociality and the CEO Labor Market during Industry Downturns

Do Nice Guys Finish Last? Prosociality and the CEO Labor Market during Industry Downturns

The manifesto in Martin Scorsese's auteur films

Relevance. In the period from 1917 to the early 1960s, there was a paradigm of �classic Hollywood�, in which films were produced according to the dominant aesthetic, genre and narrative formulas, the characters represented themselves as specific typical images with understandable motivations for the general public. Martin Scorsese is a representative of cinematography, who changed classical views of film art. That is why the study of Martin Scorsese's work remains relevant for researchers in the field of cinematography and culture to the present day.Purpose. The purpose of this work is to study the creativity of director, screenwriter and actor Martin Scorsese, as well as to identify the author's style in the artist's work, determine his author's handwriting and manner.Methodology. The methodology of this research is based on theoretical methods of scientific knowledge, in particular, the method of information analysis and synthesis, the cultural method, as well as historical and comparative methods were used.Results. The study was conducted theoretical analysis of scientific literature. The work considered the life and creative path of the director. In particular, the still image technique used by Scorsese was analysed, as well as his own director's handwriting. Scorsese's activities during public speeches and discussions related to the preservation of the National Film Foundation and the development of a new cinema are considered. Such films of the director as �Taxi Driver�, �Raging Bull�, �Nice Guys�, �Cape Fear�, �Age of Innocence�, �Casino�, �Gangs of New York�, �Aviator�, �The Departed�, �Island of the Damned�, �Silence� were analysed.Conclusions. The results of the research can be used by students of directing specialties and teachers of special disciplines to study the creativity of the director, screenwriter and actor Martin Scorsese during theoretical practical classes.

The Retirement of Chief Justice Frank F. Drowota, III: A Tribute to a Legal Legend and All Around Nice Guy

The Retirement of Chief Justice Frank F. Drowota, III: A Tribute to a Legal Legend and All Around Nice Guy

No more nice guys: Baltic relations with Russia after 2022

Russia’s escalation of its war on Ukraine in 2022 was met by immediate and strong opposition by the Baltic states after three decades long balancing and piecemeal economic and political decoupling from Russia. Article examines changes that Russia related Baltic state foreign and domestic policy experienced in 2022. It deals with the rhetoric and actions of Baltic statesmen becoming more direct and tougher towards Russia, as well as how Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are weighting in their full support to Ukraine, and finally how the Baltics themselves are untying themselves from the remainders of Russian ‘soft power’ grip.

Do Nice Guys Finish Last? Prosociality in the CEO Labor Market

Do Nice Guys Finish Last? Prosociality in the CEO Labor Market

The Price

The Price

‘Pimps” Self-presentations in the Interview Setting: ‘Good Me,’ ‘Bad Me,’ and ‘Badass Me’

ABSTRACT Using a mixed-method approach, we explored how 85 sex market facilitators used neutralization and subcultural discourse to present themselves in the interview setting. We used non-metric, Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) to test discursive themes that resulted in a three-fold model with the themes ‘good,’’bad,’ and ‘badass me’ with externalizing and internalizing approaches. The ‘good me’ subtype focused on fundamentally being a ”nice guy” but blaming acts on oppression. ‘Bad me” focused on being ”innately bad” but blaming outside factors and neutralizing ‘bad me.’ ‘Badass me’ centered on high-status feelings of pimping but also expressing guilt about it. This model may be helpful for researchers or practitioners interviewing or working with sex market facilitators, such as pimps or sex traffickers.

Domestic Disputes: Examining Discourses of Home and Property in the Former East Germany by Necia Chronister

Reviewed by: Domestic Disputes: Examining Discourses of Home and Property in the Former East Germany by Necia Chronister Nicole G. Burgoyne Domestic Disputes: Examining Discourses of Home and Property in the Former East Germany. By Necia Chronister. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. x + 223. Cloth $99.99. ISBN 978-3-11-067335-7. In a new monograph entitled Domestic Disputes, Necia Chronister offers a diverse but deep study of property relations in the former East Germany of the 1990s and early 2000s. Her primary sources range from made-for-television and theatrical films to a short story and novels. The overarching theoretical constellations of the monograph are issues of Heimat and materiality; however, her exploration of the legal basis of property conflicts in the early years of reunification, as well as her precision in defining terms such as "neoliberalism" (3), "deterritorialization" (103), and "crises of masculinity" (150) in the context of her primary sources are equally helpful. The intricacies of legal disputes regarding property in East Germany, which Chronister details in her first chapter, introduced competing claims of those expropriated by the Nazis and those whom post-Socialist privatization of East German property put at a disadvantage. The history of Nazi appropriations of property mentioned above does not impact every story discussed in this monograph, yet its centrality to the texts [End Page 197] in chapter 6 of Chronister's work demonstrates that it is not a topic that has faded by the 1990s. Chronister also introduces newspaper narratives depicting the sheer number of competing claims on individual homes in the former East, in addition to the complications of establishing property ownership, such as poor records from the period of Soviet occupation and the GDR, as well as historical idiosyncrasies like changing street names. In this context, she emphasizes the informative aim of the made-for-television films she introduces in chapters 2 and 3. Chronister examines two of six made-for-television films produced by the East German DEFA studio, commissioned by a West German television channel in a gesture towards promoting reunification. In addition to portraying both sides of property disputes between Westerners and Easterners, Chronister writes that the films, which debuted in 1991 and 1992, "imparted key policy information to the German viewing audience of the time" (39). One trope that unites films made by DEFA and those made by others such as Uta Stöckl's The Same Old Song is the narrative argument that working to maintain a property lends its inhabitants credibility. Chronister analyzes this topos with the theory of intra-activity (13). In her analysis of two further films in chapter 3, Chronister makes the most direct argument in the monograph concerning neoliberalism: "Whereas The Brocken concludes with the spread of the market into every facet of life on the island of Rügen while simultaneously positing that personal relationships and a peaceful home life can thrive there, Buck's road comedy [No More Mr. Nice Guy] imagines a rather utopian space at its conclusion that lies outside of capitalism's reach" (97). Chronister emphasizes the uncertainty regarding the scope of neoliberalism that is visible in theoretical discussion of the term and the primary source material she has surveyed. A decisive strength of Chronister's monograph is the persuasive quality of her focus on property relations and the space of a home in all eleven of the fictional stories under consideration. As elaborated above, the films specifically addressed competing claims between Easterners and Westerners on properties with homes. In most of the prose texts covered, similar situations of taking possession of property and the dynamics of home life make contemporary gender roles of central importance. For example, in a chapter contrasting Judith Hermann's short story "Summer House, Later" (1999) with her novel Where Love Begins (2014), Chronister offers important nuance to topoi of the intervening time: "The dissolving binaries of place as thematized in 'Summerhouse, Later' have thus resulted in an unsettling sense of dislocation in Where Love Begins, and the sexual and gender fluidity at stake in 'Summerhouse, Later' has given way in Where Love Begins to heteronormative gender relations and reproductive sex" (101). Chronister utilizes the normativity of the later...

Not #MeToo: The Seduction Community’s Nice Guys, Bad Apples, False Allegations and Anxiety

This paper explores the Dutch seduction community in an effort to understand how its members’ inter-subjective frameworks relate to wider issue of sexual violence. Part of the men’s rights movement, the seduction community is a transnational, self-help community aiming at empowering men who are “deficient” at social skills and particularly at successfully “picking up” women. The embodiment of masculinity is central to this rule-based, essentialist framing of sexuality and attraction in which men aim at instrumentally influencing sexual interactions in a quest to regain control and felt lost power over intimate relations. Sexual success becomes a token of manhood that not only helps “socially awkward heterosexual men” climb up the social ladder of masculinities but also one that promises soothing of anxieties and mastering of emotions. Based on twelve qualitative interviews of the Dutch seduction community’s members, this paper examines how its members frame their involvement with pickup in light of the anti-sexual harassment activism represented by MeToo. The paper argues that the community resorts to an intertwining of two complementary discursive frameworks: hegemonic masculinity versus victim power, emphasizing what scholars have called hybrid masculinity.

CART NARCS AND THE ENGINEERING OF SOCIAL SHAMING AS ENTERTAINMENT

With around 160 videos, 160,000 subscribers, and 18 million views, Cart Narcs is an “elite” YouTube channel. The typical Cart Narcs YouTube video is framed around the idea of shaming people who do not return their shopping carts. The eponymous Narc, Agent Sebastian, patrols grocery store parking lots looking for miscreants to confront and film. When he spots a target, he runs towards them making siren noises. "Cart Narcs!" he shouts. "That's not where the cart goes!" While seemingly related to established entertainment genres featuring real people in everyday situations and to prank videos, we identify significant features in Cart Narcs videos that distinguish them: the lack of a debrief; the positioning of the Cart Narc as the "nice guy" in the interaction; and the Cart Narc’s claim to the moral high ground. These features each remove a redemptive moment present in analogous types of content, resulting in a communicative interaction engineered to anger people. We ask how Agent Sebastian produces such a powerful emotional response to his seemingly innocent request that people return their shopping cart and what the logic of this form of media content might signify. Cart Narcs is a revealing case study in how the economy-driven logic of participation produces undesirable types of content when it overwhelms or wholly replaces social and aesthetic logics. Cart Narcs videos are a hybrid genre concoction that trade people's anger for monetized views, cloaked by the pretense of a social mission.

The syntax and semantics of Swedish copular sentences: a comparative perspective

This paper investigates the (recent) case alternation in Swedish equative and predicational copular sentences (‘Cicero is Tully’, ‘Cicero is a nice guy’). A central contribution of the paper is showing that this alternation is an LF-phenomenon, contra Sigurðsson (in: Hartmann, Molnárfi (eds) Comparative studies in Germanic syntax: from Afrikaans to Zurich German. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 2006) who conjectures that Swedish is changing in the direction of English and Danish, where all postcopular DPs receive Accusative case, regardless of interpretation. The Swedish alternation is shown to track the same semantic dimension that conditions the choice of predicate case in languages like Polish, Russian and Dutch, namely the distinction between stage and individual level predication. Interestingly, the Swedish alternation is also shown to share distributional properties with the predicate case alternations in these languages. To account for these observations, I propose that the morphological and semantic contrasts between the two alternants are mediated by a structural difference, such that Nominative case involves a biclausal structure, and Accusative a monoclausal structure. This paper further adds to the typological picture, showing that Swedish patterns like Polish, Russian and Dutch, but unlike English and Danish, not just in terms of equative and predicational sentences, but also in specificational copular sentences (‘The fastest runner here is Lisa’). I argue that a particular kind of predicate inversion analysis is required to account for the Swedish type of specification.

Three Argentine Flash Fictions

WORLDLIT.ORG 31 FICTION Three Argentine Flash Fictions by Ariel Magnus Ariel Magnus (b. 1975, Buenos Aires) is a writer and literary translator. He has published numerous novels and story collections, edited anthologies of Argentine humor and misanthropy, and written for the radio. Several of his books have been translated into French and German; Chess with My Grandfather is the first to be translated into English. Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires. Old Acquaintance Having met by chance, they hugged. “Long time no see!” the men chorused. They caught up, exchanged telephone numbers, and promised to meet again for coffee sometime. On his way back home, M. tried to remember why they’d stopped seeing each other; such a nice guy. (One meets so many fools in life, he mused, but truly worthwhile people vanish without a trace.) But when the taxi arrived, he found that his wallet was missing. Identifying the guilty party immediately , he wondered when his erstwhile acquaintance had chosen his moment: during their unexpected greeting, or the hug goodbye. The Ghosts of Canter Villa They broke in through the window at night and barricaded the door from the inside. The next morning, they draped the mansion’s façade with a large red flag with Che’s face on it (the mansion had been empty for years). They made cairns of stones on the balconies to repel the police response and piles of leaflets to hand out to journalists. But neither the police nor the media paid them any attention. Now they’ve been living there for years, claiming to be revolutionary insurrectionists . But people in the neighborhood regard them as simple squatters. Drizzle Because of its geographic location, in the town of El Hoyo, the wind doesn’t blow from the side but from above. This means that hats aren’t blown off heads and doors don’t swing shut, but also that you can’t air out rooms by opening the window (and girls’ skirts don’t fly up in the draft). Here, flags hang from horizontal masts, you light cigarettes vertically, and umbrellas are called windbrellas. Although they can’t fly kites or sail paper boats, the children still have a happy childhood . Or at least one in which their hair is always neat and tidy. Translations from the Spanish By Kit Maude "WE DON'T CARE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY" BY ZAK MC IS LICENSED UNDER CC BY-SA 2.0 ...

Arnold the Super-ish Hero by Heather Tekavec

Reviewed by: Arnold the Super-ish Hero by Heather Tekavec Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor Tekavec, Heather Arnold the Super-ish Hero; illus. by Guillaume Perreault. Kids Can, 2021 [32 p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781525303098 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781525305412 $9.99 Reviewed from digital galleys Ad 6-9 yrs Coming from a family of superheroes, Arnold expects his superpower to manifest any day now, but as it is, his only real talent is answering phones at Superhero HQ. One day a call comes in requesting help at City Park, but the heroes are already busy, so it's up to Arnold to save the day. Predictably, things get off to a rough start, and a series of misunderstandings and accidents ensue, each ending with Arnold bumbling into heroism (he feeds a baby duck, stops a skateboarder from falling, etc.) until he reaches the park, where his experience from Superhero HQ office work comes in handy and saves the day. That evening's news puzzles over the identity of the new hero Super Nice Guy. The trope of the superpower-less kid in a superhero family isn't particularly new; though Arnold's mishaps make for some amusing moments, it doesn't make sense that the other superheroes celebrate his actions as helping the good guys. The art has a retro flair with comic book–like paneling and bold colors, and there are echoes of Tintin both in the styling and figures (Arnold even sports a callback pompadour). Plenty of visual nods to current superhero franchises will be appreciated by fans in the know, especially younger ones who aren't quite ready for solo comic book reading. [End Page 442] Copyright © 2021 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

How Ecosystems are Built: Competition and Cooperation in Evolution

Despite the old adage ‘nice guys finish last’, cooperation is common in life – from the scale of genes or cells through to entire societies. Although these two ideas seem to contradict each other, Dr Egbert Giles Leigh Jr has demonstrated throughout his career at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama that working together has been the key to the success of multicellular life. Here, he explains his view of how competition and cooperation both played essential roles in bringing forth productive, diverse ecosystems.

Nice Guys Finish Last? The Effect of Lay Theories on Prosocial Actors’ Motivation and Future Benefits

Lin-Healy and Small found that laypeople believed that selfless prosocial actors were less likely than their selfish counterparts to benefit from their acts—that is, “nice guys finish last” (Study 1). The purpose of the current research was to replicate and extend their results. Our first three studies asked laypeople to estimate selfless or selfish prosocial actors’ future benefits. Inconsistent with the original results, we found that both Eastern and Western laypeople believed that selfless actors were more likely to benefit than selfish actors (Studies 1 and 2), and the belief in a just world moderated this effect (Study 3). Study 4 asked participants to choose an agent among three prosocial actors with different motivations to gamble for a monetary reward. The results showed that laypeople were more likely to choose a selfless agent to make the bet. The findings indicate that laypeople believe that authentic altruistic actors obtain future benefits.

No more Mr. Nice Guy: social value orientation and abusive supervision

PurposeThe present research examined the interactive effect of subordinates' and their supervisors' social value orientations (SVO) on abusive supervision and its consequence for in-role performance.Design/methodology/approachIn study 1, we provided a survey to 420 subordinates and 115 supervisors from 42 organizations. HLM was used to test the hypothesized cross-level moderated mediation model. In study 2, 78 participants were asked to imagine they were a supervisor and responded to a potential scenario where supervisor and subordinate prosocial and proself orientations toward the organization were manipulated (2 × 2 design).FindingsStudy 1 showed that when supervisors have a higher prosocial motivation, subordinates who are more self-interested (proself) report more abuse than those with a higher prosocial motivation, with negative consequences for in-role performance. Study 2 replicated the pattern: participants (in the role as supervisor) with induced prosocial goals rated abusive supervision behaviors as more justified and acceptable toward a proself employee than they did toward a prosocial employee.Originality/valueThis research is innovative by bridging SVO and organizational literatures and demonstrating that a dyadic interaction between a proself subordinate and a prosocial supervisor may produce a reactive perpetrator – provocative victim relationship characterized by higher abusive supervision.

Nice guys finish last: When and why agreeableness is associated with economic hardship.

Recent research suggests that agreeable individuals experience greater financial hardship than their less agreeable peers. We explore the psychological mechanisms underlying this relationship and provide evidence that it is driven by agreeable individuals considering money to be less important, but not (as previously suggested) by agreeable individuals pursuing more cooperative negotiating styles. Taking an interactionist perspective, we further hypothesize that placing little importance on money-a risk factor for money mismanagement-is more detrimental to the financial health of those agreeable individuals who lack the economic means to compensate for their predisposition. Supporting this proposition, we show that agreeableness is more strongly (and sometimes exclusively) related to financial hardship among low-income individuals. We present evidence from diverse data sources, including 2 online panels (n1 = 636, n2 = 3,155), a nationally representative survey (n3 = 4,170), objective bank account data (n4 = 549), a longitudinal cohort study (n5 = 2,429), and geographically aggregated insolvency and personality measures (n6 = 332,951, n7 = 2,468,897). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Reviewed by: Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia Kiri Palm Mejia, Tehlor Kay Miss Meteor; by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore. HarperTeen, 2020 [400p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780062869913 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780062869937 $8.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 7-10 Meteor, NM is known for two things: the space rock that crashed nearby and gave the town its name, and the Meteor Regional Pageant and Talent Competition Showcase, more often referred to as the Miss Meteor Pageant. Chicky Quintanilla thinks of the pageant as skinny blonde white girls stealing the crown from all three of her gorgeous older sisters and as a time where her punk, butch Latina aesthetic is scrutinized even more than usual. For Lita Perez, winning Miss Meteor was fantasy she used to play with her former friend Chicky, and as the Fiftieth Annual competition looms and Lita finds that her body is transforming into stardust, she decides there's nothing to lose by entering the contest. Alternating narration allows for interweaving perspectives on Chicky and Lita's lost friendship, the stresses both girls are experiencing outside of the norms of high school and beauty pageants, and even the budding romances they're unknowingly building with two of the only nice guys in town. As Latina girls in a white small town, they are already othered, but they fear discovery of their more complicated individualities: Lita as an otherworldly star-child who arrived on Earth with the famous meteor, and Chicky as a closeted pansexual in an aggressively heteronormative town. This complex tale packs a lot into its space, and while the novel is sure to resonate with any kid who feels like an outcast and any reader who loved Murphy's Dumplin' (BCCB 12/15), it's especially salient for those in the Latinx, queer, and economically disadvantaged communities. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

Reviewed by: Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor Giles, Lamar Not So Pure and Simple. HarperTeen, 2020 [400p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-234919-4 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-06-234921-7 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 8-12 When his longtime crush Kiera breaks up with her boyfriend and joins the church's Purity Pledge group, high school junior Del sees an opportunity to make his move, even if it means agreeing to abstinence (a vow he fully intends to break when he hooks up with Kiera). Kiera's childhood pal Jameer offers to get Del in with Kiera, but in exchange, Del has to answer anonymous questions from the inexperienced "Purity Pledgers" regarding sex, where his rumored expertise is much greater than the reality. He is so focused on getting Kiera, however, he ends up throwing both his group pals and a teacher under the bus, ignores his friends, and refuses to accept the idea that Kiera just might not be that interested in him. This is a deeply funny and searingly honest look at teen sex, adults' anxieties around it, and the toxic masculinity that so often shapes it. Del is a likable if sometimes frustrating kid, but the author doesn't let him off easy—he's engaged in plenty of sexist behavior even as he criticizes those around him, and when Kiera rejects him, he pulls out the Nice Guy defense pretty easily. The women in his life (and eventually a few men) ultimately school him on what respect actually looks like, and if the tone tips occasionally into prescriptive (the sit-down with his fiercely feminist sister is almost comically unsubtle), it's forgivable considering the complex subject it tackles. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois