Tradeoff Between Distributed Social Learning and Herding Effect in Online Rating Systems

We investigated how social diffusion increased client participation in an online rating system and, in turn, how this herding effect may affect the metrics of client feedback over the course of years. In a field study, we set up a transparent feedback system for university services: During the proce...

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Main Authors: Ofer Tchernichovski, Marissa King, Peter Brinkmann, Xanadu Halkias, Daniel Fimiarz, Laurent Mars, Dalton Conley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-02-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244017691078