Money and Marriage? How Marital Dynamics and Gender Differences in Risk Affect Financial Portfolio Composition Choices
Disagreements over money are widely believed to be one of the leading causes of divorce and separation in the developed world. Hence, it is perhaps unsurprising that examination of transitions in and
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2013
• #Financial Management
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Money? Three Tests of the Substitutability Hypothesis of Money and Social Support
Rich people have fewer friends than the rest, according to a Gallup poll (2004). Respondents whose income was at the top of the scale reported having the fewest friends, while those making the least
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2013
• #Social Impact
The Psychophysics of Humor
Psychological distance (due to the passage of time, degree of social familiarity, differences between geographical locations, or degree of reality) is an important factor in transforming tragedy into
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2013
• #Culture and Lifestyle
Philosophies of Happiness: Preferences for Experienced and Remembered Happiness
Which life would you prefer: a life where you experience happiness on a moment-to-moment basis such that you feel happy during your life; or a life that you reflect back on and feel happy thinking
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2013
• #Culture and Lifestyle
What was I Thinking? Effect of Construal on Memory Based Choice
Construal Level Theory (CLT) argues that one’s construal level, or the degree to which one represents information concretely vs. abstractly, has a broad influence on attitudes, choice, and related
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2013
• #CSR Practice
Managing Motivation Over Time: How Focusing on the Present versus Future Influences Goal Pursuit
Many of consumers’ goals persist over long periods of time. Saving for retirement and being healthy, for instance, cannot be achieved in one night. These and other ‘ongoing’ goals (e.g., being
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Intelligence Predicts Choice of Absolute Versus Positional Income
Positional goods are those whose valuation depends, in part, on the levels held by others. For example, if the productivity of all PhD students doubles, the rising tide of publications would not
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2013
• #Personal Choice
When Choice Closure Reduces Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Decision Outcome Valence
Previous research has shown that choice closure, defined as the psychological process by which consumers come to perceive a decision to be final, increases satisfaction with difficult decisions (Gu,
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2013
• #Customer Satisfaction