Donna Hill

PATIENTS with acromegaly have been thought to have a reduced life expectancy (Greene, 1951). Indeed Evans, Briggs, and Dixon (1966) noted that in 100 cases of acromegaly, 50 per cent had died before the age of 50 years, and 89 per cent by the age of 60 years. In the majority of reviewed series of patients with

Consumer complaining behavior in the US and other countries has been studied extensively over the years. Complaint behavior takes many forms: requests for refunds or exchanges, negative word-of-mouth, exit (or reduced repatronage), sabotage, and more recently Web site postings. When studied from an international context, differences in complaining behavior are typically explained in terms of underlying cultural values or norms; such as individualism vs. collectivism (Watkins and Liu 1996), uncertainty avoidance (Hernandez, Strahle, Garcia, and Sorensen 1991), or Confucian dynamism (Le Claire 1993), etc. These studies have indicated that collectivist cultures tend to discourage complaining behavior, that individuals who are high in uncertainty avoidance are less likely to seek redress or to engage in negative word-of-mouth, and that the more one identifies with traditional Chinese values the less likely he is to complain. This study, however, challenges the conventional wisdom that culture is the underlying factor that accounts for differences in complaining behavior across national boundaries.

Journal Article Joseph Smith: The First Mormon Get access Joseph Smith: The First Mormon. By Hill Donna. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1977. xix, 527 p. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $12.50.) Paul M. Edwards Paul M. Edwards Graceland College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 1978, Pages 225–226, https://doi.org/10.2307/966838 Published: 01 April 1978