Five studies examined the stigmatization of materialism. Participants expressed negative stereotypes of materialistic people, considering them to be more selfish...
What kinds of purchases do the most to make us happy? Previous research (Carter & Gilovich, 2010; Van Boven &...
Female “empowerment” has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving...
This paper studies corrective strategies for the illusion of delayed incentives (Soman, 1998), the phenomena that money-for-effort transactions that are...
People tend to overestimate the emotional consequences of future life events, exhibiting an impact bias. The authors replicated the impact...
This paper uses a unique data set with housing consumption, well-being measures and time use patterns to explore the implications...
Arguably, all judgments and decisions are made in 1 (or some combination) of 2 basic evaluation modes—joint evaluation mode (JE),...
This reprinted article originally appeared in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012(AUG), 141 (3), 429-432. (The following abstract of the...
With life expectancy dramatically increasing throughout much of the world, people have to make choices with a longer future in...
We describe a new anomaly in intertemporal choice—the “date/delay effect”: discount rates that are imputed when time is described using...