Many people fail to save what they will need for retirement. Research on excessive discounting of the future suggests that...
The present research provides the first evidence that temporarily giving up something pleasurable may provide an effective route to happiness....
Patrons of a pub evaluated regular beer and “MIT brew” (regular beer plus a few drops of balsamic vinegar) in...
Despite the social importance of decisions taken in the “heat of the moment,” very little research has examined the effect...
Neuroscientific studies demonstrate that erotic stimuli activate the reward circuitry processing monetary and drug rewards. Theoretically, a general reward system...
We test for consumption smoothing using bankruptcy data on players in the National Football League (NFL), who typically earn several...
Differentiation of homogeneous agricultural products through branding is a difficult and costly undertaking for a firm. How successful has this...
As a company tries to find the factors accounting for strong and weak markets, typical consumer explanations for both tend...
The authors demonstrate that marketing actions, such as pricing, can alter the actual efficacy of products to which they are...
The research presented in this article provides evidence that add-on features sold to enhance a product can be more than...