TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Ingo A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - Connotative meanings of sustainable mobility BT - A segmentation approach using cultural sentiments JF - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice N2 - Changing people’s travel behaviours and mode choices is an important mitigation option to reduce greenhouse gas emission in transport. Previous studies have shown that symbolic meanings associated with new low-emission vehicles and travel services influence people’s willingness to adopt these innovations. However, little is known about the symbolic meanings of many upcoming transport innovations, which often influence habitual decision-making and their stratification within the population. This study thus examines cultural affective meanings of a broad range of conventional and novel transport mode options in a nationally representative German sample. Cluster analysis of affective meanings of travel modes identified six unique traveller segments. These consumer groups differ significantly in their intention to adopt low-emission travel modes and are characterized by specific psychographic, socio-demographic and behavioural profiles. The results demonstrate that affective meanings of choice options are predictive regarding the attitudes and (intended) behaviour of traveller segments. Moreover, the invariant positive meanings of conventional cars across segments indicate the strong cultural embeddedness of this mode in society. We discuss the implications of our approach for the development of government strategies for sustainable transport. KW - Segmentierung KW - Soziomarketing KW - Reiseverhalten KW - Treibhauseffekt KW - Verkehr KW - Nachhaltigkeit Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.06.002 SN - 1879-2375 VL - 126 SP - 259 EP - 280 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wronski, Caroline A1 - Hernik, Mikolaj A1 - Daum, Moritz M. T1 - Prior action direction of a novel agent cues spatial atention in 7-month-old infants JF - Swiss Psychology Open N2 - The present study investigated whether 7-month-old infants attribute directionality to an object after having observed it engage in agentive behavior and whether they maintain this attribution even when the agent is presented statically. Infants were familiarized with an object displaying either agentive behavioral cues (self-propelled, context-sensitive movement) or non-agentive motion (the same movement pattern caused by external factors). In a subsequent spatial-cueing procedure, the agent was displayed statically at the center of the screen. Gaze latencies were assessed for targets appearing at a location congruent or incongruent with the position of the agent’s formerly leading end. Only infants that had observed the object move in an agentive manner showed shorter gaze latencies for congruent compared to incongruent targets, suggesting facilitation of attention toward a location congruent with the agent’s prior action direction. Results provide evidence that infants attribute directionality to novel agents based on behavioral agency cues, that this directional representation is maintained even when the agent is stationary, and that it guides infants’ covert attention. KW - Kleinkind KW - Visuelle Aufmerksamkeit KW - Augenbewegung Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.38 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 15 CY - Bern ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zöller, Nikolas A1 - Morgan, Jonathan Howard A1 - Schröder, Tobias T1 - A topology of groups BT - What GitHub can tell us about online collaboration JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change N2 - In this work, we study the collaboration patterns of open source software projects on GitHub by analyzing the pull request submissions and acceptances of repositories. We develop a group typology based on the structural properties of the corresponding directed graphs, and analyze how the topology is connected to the repositorys collective identity, hierarchy, productivity, popularity, resilience and stability. These analyses indicate significant differences between group types and thereby provide valuable insights on how to effectively organize collaborative software development. Identifying the mechanisms that underlie self-organized collaboration on digital platforms is important not just to better understand open source software development but also all other decentralized and digital work environments, a setting widely regarded as a key feature of the future work place. KW - GitHub KW - Kollaboration KW - Netzwerkanalyse KW - Maschinelles Lernen Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120291 SN - 1873-5509 VL - 161 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -