Financial decision-making rarely follows models derived from economic theory, which postulate that people are rational economic actors. Psychological alternatives abound. The Tversky-Kahneman heuristics approach is dominating, but it needs to be complemented with emotional and personality...

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent that dimensions of emotional intelligence (EI) would explain affect intensity. It was assumed that emotionally intelligent individuals in similarity to under-aroused individuals tend to actively take action to raise baseline...

The present study was prompted by the paucity in the literature on the relation between consumer behavior and the psychology of saving. Consumer choice mode was used in analogy to delay-of-gratification to examine how attitude to saving would relate to a behavioral measure. Data from 145...

Emotioner är av avgörande betydelse i människors liv, men först ganska nyligen har deras betydelse i arbetslivet uppmärksammats. Begreppet emotionell intelligens (EI) som etablerades omkring 1990, och populäriserades i Golemans framgångsrika böcker, är ett exempel på den utvecklingen....

This paper was motivated by a paucity of research addressing how consumer decision-making is related to beliefs about money and different modes of reasoning. To investigate this issue, data were collected from 142 participants, who filled out questionnaires involving scales aimed to measure...

Research suggests that direct measurement of attitude is not necessarily adequate to establish determinants of behavior. Cognitive and affective aspects of behavior presumably differ in accessibility when using direct measurement as typically the case with verbal self-reports. Data was collected...

This is a study of emotional intelligence (EI). EI was measured by performance and self-report tasks. Data were also obtained on basic values, some standard personality dimensions such as those specified in the five-factor model, social adjustment and several scales of impression management....

In this article, the concept of lifestyle is traced to its early roots in personality psychology and in marketing. In the latter field, many commercial marketing firms have made strong claims as to the explanatory power of lifestyle dimensions, often based on procedures which have been kept...