We investigate the influence of prior ideas on solvers’ creative performance in online open ideation contests. In three lab studies and an empirical analysis of a large-scale dataset from a
Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of expected utility, religious and institutional perspectives, we try to understand whether differences exist in consumers’ evaluation of relative vice and
The global luxury market has seen an incredible increase in value during the last decades. Notwithstanding its volume, the marketing of luxury products has only attracted limited attention from
Consumers’ ideal self-concepts are rather hypothetical and related to the future as compared to actual self-concepts which are experienced in the here and now. Thus, the ideal self-concept may be
This project contributes to the literature on the consequences of materialism. In particular, two studies are reported that suggest that materialistic consumers buffer their existential insecurity