E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude
As the Enron scandal and Bernie Madoff’s pyramid scheme have shown, individuals’ attitude towards ethical risks can have a huge impact on society at large. In this paper, we compare risk-taking attitudes assessed with the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) survey with individu...
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| author | Sun, Jiachen Gloor, Peter |
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| description | As the Enron scandal and Bernie Madoff’s pyramid scheme have shown, individuals’ attitude towards ethical risks can have a huge impact on society at large. In this paper, we compare risk-taking attitudes assessed with the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) survey with individual e-mail networking patterns and body language measured with smartwatches. We find that e-mail communication signals such as network structure and dynamics, and content features as well as real-world behavioral signals measured through a smartwatch such as heart rate, acceleration, and mood state demonstrate a strong correlation with the individuals’ risk-preference in the different domains of the DOSPERT survey. For instance, we found that people with higher degree centrality in the e-mail network show higher likelihood to take social risks, while using language expressing a “you live only once” attitude indicates lower willingness to take risks in some domains. Our results show that analyzing the human interaction in organizational networks provides valuable information for decision makers and managers to support an increase in ethical behavior of the organization’s members. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1313332023-03-15T19:37:54Z E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude Sun, Jiachen Gloor, Peter Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Collective Intelligence Sloan School of Management As the Enron scandal and Bernie Madoff’s pyramid scheme have shown, individuals’ attitude towards ethical risks can have a huge impact on society at large. In this paper, we compare risk-taking attitudes assessed with the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) survey with individual e-mail networking patterns and body language measured with smartwatches. We find that e-mail communication signals such as network structure and dynamics, and content features as well as real-world behavioral signals measured through a smartwatch such as heart rate, acceleration, and mood state demonstrate a strong correlation with the individuals’ risk-preference in the different domains of the DOSPERT survey. For instance, we found that people with higher degree centrality in the e-mail network show higher likelihood to take social risks, while using language expressing a “you live only once” attitude indicates lower willingness to take risks in some domains. Our results show that analyzing the human interaction in organizational networks provides valuable information for decision makers and managers to support an increase in ethical behavior of the organization’s members. 2021-09-20T14:16:15Z 2021-09-20T14:16:15Z 2021-01-14 2021-01-22T15:55:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131333 Future Internet 13 (1): 17 (2021) PUBLISHER_CC http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi13010017 Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| spellingShingle | Sun, Jiachen Gloor, Peter E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude |
| title | E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude |
| title_full | E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude |
| title_fullStr | E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude |
| title_full_unstemmed | E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude |
| title_short | E-Mail Network Patterns and Body Language Predict Risk-Taking Attitude |
| title_sort | e mail network patterns and body language predict risk taking attitude |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131333 |
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