Personal Choice

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When Being Happy Makes Choosing Harder

Being in a positive mood confers a wide range of benefits on consumers. Positive affect enhances creativity (Isen et al. 1985), promotes self-control (Aspinwall 1998; Ragunathan and Trope 2002), and Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Jordan Etkin, Anastasiya Pocheptsova
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Choice Architecture, Public Policy And Consumer Research

The dictionary definition of a fellow includes: “a member of a learned society.” joining. Well, wow, what a learned society that I am It has a history dating to the first large scale models of Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Eric J. Johnson
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Deprivation Of Control And The Phonetic Appeal Of Brand Names

People must often respond to control threats of different nature in their daily lives: mundane (e.g., stockout) or tragic (e.g., natural disaster), negative (e.g., flight delay) or positive (e.g., Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Jamel Khenfer, Caroline Cuny
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Attribution Of Authenticity:The Benefits Of Self-Disclosure Of Unfavorable Information

In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, questions of authenticity loomed large (Sergent, 2016; Szalai, 2016; Talbot-Zorn & Marz, 2016; Zimmer, 2016; Zogby, 2016). We suggest that when a person Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Li Jiang, Maryam Kouchaki, Francesca Gino
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Predicting Memory-Based Consumer Choices From Recall And Preferences

Consumers often need to make choices when some or all of the information relevant to the decision is not physically present. To deal with this, they need to retrieve the necessary information from Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Zhihao Zhang, Aniruddha Nrusimha, Ming Hsu
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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