Power Of Sender Research Articles

Bayesian persuasion with costly information acquisition

We consider a Bayesian persuasion model, in which the receiver can gather independent information about the state at a uniformly posterior-separable cost. We show that the sender provides information that prevents the receiver from gathering independent information in equilibrium. When the receiver faces a lower cost of information, her ‘threat’ of gathering independent information increases, thus decreasing the sender's power to persuade. Lower cost of information can also hurt the receiver, because the sender may provide strictly less information in equilibrium. Furthermore, we propose a solution method that can be used to solve our model in specific applications.

A Physical-Layer Location Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Mobile Public Hotspots in NEMO-Based VANETs

A network mobility (NEMO)-based vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a new approach to integrate the NEMO protocol with VANETs. This integration supports communications between roadside units (RSUs) and vehicles and provides Internet access through public hotspots located inside public transportation systems, such as buses, trains, and shuttles. Passengers inside these public transportation systems enjoy full Internet access by using different mobile network nodes (MNNs), such as cell phones and personal digital assistants. However, due to the open nature of wireless network environments, physical-layer attackers can easily localize the MNNs by measuring their received signal strength (RSS) through positioning schemes such as the triangulation scheme. In this paper, we modify obfuscation, i.e., concealment, and power variability ideas and propose a new physical-layer location privacy scheme, i.e., the fake point-cluster-based scheme, to prevent attackers from localizing users inside NEMO-based VANET hotspots. The proposed scheme involves fake-point- and cluster-based subschemes, and its goal is to confuse the attackers by increasing the estimation errors of their RSSs measurements and, hence, preserving MNNs' location privacy. Using correctness, accuracy, and certainty metrics, we show that the fake point-cluster-based scheme achieves higher MNN's location privacy when the number of network grid points in the hotspot decreases. In addition, our extensive simulations show that the fake point-cluster-based scheme achieves 23% and 37% decreases in the average sender's power and the MNN-AP route path length, respectively, compared with the fake-point subscheme.

Personalized salutation, power of sender and response rates to Web-based surveys

Three studies were conducted to examine the effect of personalized salutation and sender power on signing up to an online survey panel, and subsequent survey response rates. In the first study, significantly more people joined a panel if addressed by a personalized salutation. In Study 2, this effect was replicated using an invitation to leave a second panel. In the final study, a significant salutation effect was found when power of the sender was high, and not when power of the sender was neutral. It is argued that for this sample, power of audience and participant identifiability linked to create a compliance-based motivation to join and maintain membership of an online panel. Implications for the maintenance of online panels, survey response rates, and the collection of sensitive personal information, are discussed.

Some Effects of Role Conflict Source on the Experience of Role Conflict

A group of 176 undergraduates participated in a role‐playing laboratory experiment that explored the effects of intersender and intrasender role conflict on experienced role stress. Each role sender's power (control over valued resources and outcomes) and importance (desire to meet the sender's expectations) were measured. For intrasender conflict only, role sender power was positively associated with upset over the conflict, whereas role sender importance was negatively associated with upset.