'Waste not want not' expresses our culture's aversion to waste. 'I could have gotten the same thing for less' is a sentiment that can diminish pleasure in a transaction. We study people's willingness to 'pay' to avoid this spoiler. In one scenario, participants imagined they were looking for a...

This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...

Emotionen sind ein wichtiges Gebiet in der Marketingforschung, da sie in der Kaufsituation das Kundenverhalten bestimmen können. Emotionale Veränderungen aufgrund des Alterungsprozesses sind ein weiteres wichtiges Forschungsgebiet. Bis heute besteht bezüglich der Kombination dieser...

Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a national sample spanning the adult life span, age differences in anger and sadness were explored. The cross-sectional and longitudinal findings consistently suggest that the frequency of anger increases during young adulthood, but then shows a...

We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...

Regional cultural identity increases trust and facilitates interaction between native citizens ('social capital'). At the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers from economic interaction within the region. Policies...

From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...

We use a simple version of the Psychological Expected Utility Model (Caplin and Leahy, QJE, 2001) to analyze the optimal choice of information accuracy by an individual who is concerned with anticipatory feeling. The individual faces the following trade-off: on the one hand information may lead...