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Loneliness And Moral Judgment Does Loneliness Make Moral Judgment More Permissible?

Despite the fact that social connections are central facets of daily social life, and loneliness influences most people’s quality of life, relatively little empirical attention has been devoted to Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Jinfeng (Jenny) Jiao, Jing (Alice) Wang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Magnitude Representations Underlie Valuations Of Prospects

In his original conception of expected utility, Daniel Bernoulli (1738; 1954) proposed that individuals generally have diminishing marginal utility (DMU). Much in the same way that an additional Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Dan R. Schley, Ellen Peters
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Feeling Guilty About Money: How Consumers Prioritize Cleansing Tainted Money Over Redeeming

Consumers can feel guilty about money, for instance, when they receive a product refund by stretching the truth or obtain a pay raise by exaggerating their contribution to a project. Given that Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Hyun Young Park, Tom Meyvis
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Benefiting From Inequity Promotes Prosociality

People care about fairness. In our interpersonal relationships, we strive to maintain an equitable balance of costs and benefits (Fiske, 1991), and even in economic games with strangers people are Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Yoel Inbar, Emily Zitek, Alexander Jordan
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Two Sides Of The Gold Medal: Paradoxes Of The Olympic Experience

Mega-sporting events like the Olympic Games, the Soccer World Cup finals, or the Super Bowl have become high-profile global consumption phenomena that attract the attention of massive spectator Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Sabrina Gabl, Verena E. Stoeckl, Andrea Hemetsberger
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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