Personal Choice

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Set-Fit Effects In Choice

In five experiments, we show how the “fit” of an item with a set of similar items affects choice. We find that people have a notion of a set that fits together—one where all items are the same, Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Yann Cornil, Yakov Bart
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Fear Not, For You Can Help! The Effect Of Fear Of Failure And Self-Construal On Charitable Giving

Extant literature offers mixed findings as to how people respond to having an aspect of the self threatened, reporting both social contact seeking (Maner et al. 2007), and avoiding behavior (Murray Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Zeynep Gürhan-Canli, Lale Okyay-Ata
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Which Product To Retain? The Effect Of Product-Related Versus Person-Related Product Features

Owning a product and choosing a product often go hand in hand. In some cases, ownership precedes choice; consumers first acquire redundant products, like when they receive two toasters as wedding Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Liad Weiss, Daniel Bartels
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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A Cross-Cultural Study Of Price Search Decisions

Search is an important domain in consumer behavior, and yet cross-cultural differences in search decisions remain a largely unexplored topic. The present study focuses on the following research Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Vincent Mak, Suppakron Pattaratanakun
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Tipping Points In Consumer Choice: The Case Of Collections

The classic account of escalation of commitment suggests that decision makers have a tendency to become locked into courses of action by throwing good money after bad in dealing with losing projects Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Leilei Gao, Yanliu Huang, Itamar Simonson
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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