Personal Choice

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Material Gifts As Relationship Mnemonics: Why More Material Gifts Are Given Than Wanted?

How do people choose material and experiential purchases when these purchases are intended as gifts for others? Following van Boven and Gilovich’s (2003) initial distinction between material and Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Adelle X. Yang, Minjung Koo, Jaewon Hwang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Decisional Conflict Predicts Myopia

Despite the integral role conflict plays in the subjective experience of self-control decisions, most work investigating conflict does not measure it directly. In the present paper, we use Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Paul Edgar Stillman, Melissa Ferguson
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Enhancing Luxury Consumption Among Middle-income People

One main barrier to middle-income people’s luxury consumption is their limited affordability. The purpose of this study is to examine whether providing instalment payment schemes enhances their Read More »

Date: 12/02/2019
Author: Manish Das, Victor Saha, Charles Jebarajakirthy
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Aspirational Consumption At The BOP

This study examines the factors that motivate both the rural and urban BOP consumers for engaging in aspirational consumption in spite of their socio-economic constraints. Data obtained from the Read More »

Date: 12/02/2019
Author: Abhinav Srivastava, Srabanti Mukherjee
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Order Effect Of Personal Identification On Donation Amount

This research examines the order effect of personally identifiable information on donation amount. Across six studies, including an actual behavioural study and a field study, we find that providing Read More »

Date: 12/02/2019
Author: Xue (Phyllis) Wang, Li Yan, Minjung Koo, Hean Tat Keh
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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