At the point of sale, packaging is often one of the few means for companies to answer implicit questions that (potential) consumers might have before buying food products. This paper provides a novel toolbox that supports companies in designing consumer-centric packaging that assists consumers...

Coupling is the degree to which thoughts of consumption evoke thoughts of payment and vice versa. This mental association is crucial for diverse phenomena like sunk costs but has rarely been addressed in the literature. This article provides a framework for the phenomenon, highlights its...

Previous research has shown that money management contributes to over-indebtedness. This article sheds new light on this relation by looking at factual money management and its mental underpinnings, mental accounting. In a conceptual model we propose that fuzzy factual and mental money...