Lauren Rhue

The Anchoring Effect, Algorithmic Fairness, and the Limits of Information Transparency for Emotion Artificial Intelligence

Information Systems Research · 2023-12-19 · 46 citations

Emotion artificial intelligence (AI) is shown to vary systematically in its ability to accurately identify emotions, and this variation creates potential biases. In this paper, we conduct an experiment involving three commercially available emotion AI systems and a group of human labelers tasked with identifying emotions from two image data sets. The study focuses on the alignment between facial expressions and the emotion labels assigned by both the AI and humans. Importantly, human labelers ar…

Who Are You and What Are You Selling? Creator-Based and Product-Based Racial Cues in Crowdfunding

MIS Quarterly · 2022-12-01 · 24 citations

The display of personal information in crowdfunding campaigns is vital for facilitating trust; however, this information often communicates the racial identity of the fundraiser. We study the relationship between racial cues and crowdfunding success. Using data from more than 100,000 projects gathered from Kickstarter.com, we categorized racial cues as creator-based versus product-based. For each category, we derived racial cues in two different mediums: photo vs. textual. We used propensity sco…

Playing to the Crowd? Digital Visibility and the Social Dynamics of Purchase Disclosure1

MIS Quarterly · 2019-12-01 · 19 citations

As people share more of their lives on social media, their consumption and purchase behaviors become increasingly visible to their peers, spawning a new form of digitally enabled conspicuous consumption. We examine how the ensuing dynamics of social commerce affect these visibility choices. We use data from a platform dedicated exclusively to facilitating the display of verified online and offline purchases with optional product commentaries. We use fixed effects and matching techniques to contr…

Playing to the Crowd? Digital Visibility and the Social Dynamics of Purchase Disclosure

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2019-01-01 · 8 citations

Trust is All You Need: An Empirical Exploration of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and ICO Reputation Scores

2021 · 6 citations

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are increasingly discussed as a viable option for start-up companies to raise capital for new projects. In an ICO, a company issues a virtual coin, similar to bitcoin, to raise money. Investors purchase coins in expectation that these coins and their underlying value will rise in the future. Described as a hybrid of an initial public offering (IPO) and a crowdfunding campaign, an ICO poses unique opportunities and risks for both entrepreneurs and investors. Entrepre…