Personal Choice

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Mental Stealing Effects On Purchase Decisions For Others

Past research on mental accounting has focused on how consumers create budgets for themselves to control the flow of resources (Thaler 1980; 1999; Thaler and Johnson 1990). This research examines how Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Derek D. Rucker, Esta Denton
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Sweet Protection: Using Sweets To Manage Relationships

Gifting food is a common consumer behavior. For instance, when going to a Superbowl party, an individual may bring a bag of chips or cookies. Likewise, one may choose a gift box of assorted nuts or Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Ann E. Schlosser
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Forgive By Remembering Or Forgive By Forgetting: The Temporal Match Between Victim Motivation And

Gift giving involving a reparative motivation has received limited attention in the consumer behavior literature. However, using gifts to encourage forgiveness is so common there are websites Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Christina I. Anthony, Elizabeth Cowley, Adam Duhachek
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Single Option Aversion

This work documents an effect labeled ‘Single Option Aversion’ where the choice share of an option increases (relative to deferral) when a competing attractive option is added to the choice set, Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Daniel Mochon
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Self-Affirmation Can Enable Goal Disengagement

Research indicates that affirming core values helps to bolster the legitimacy of the self and promotes reacting with equanimity to threats to self-regard. Self-affirmed people accept information Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Kathleen D. Vohs, Ji Kyung Park, Brandon J. Schmeichel
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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