Self-selection, slipping, salvaging, slacking, and stoning: The impacts of negative feedback at eBay

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 223-231

  Khopkar, Tapan ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Resnick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic Commerce; Feedback; Reputation Systems; Stoning; Trust

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECONOMICS; FEEDBACK;

REPUTATION SYSTEMS; STONING; TRUST;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 30044435166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1064009.1064033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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