-control and trust. Instead, self-control affects trust indirectly by influencing the level of effort in decision making. Poor self …

what we call hard and soft commitments and identify how soft commitments, in particular, can help with various dilemmas …, both in explaining empirical behavior and in designing effective commitment devices. Second, we highlight the importance of … certain modeling assumptions in predicting when commitment devices will be demanded and examine the laboratory and field …

this relation by looking at factual money management and its mental underpinnings, mental accounting. In a conceptual model … mental structures play an important role in over-indebtedness. Twenty-five in-depth interviews deliver preliminary support …

, and sustained as problematics of contemporary consumer culture. As such, they are rooted as much in the social, cultural …, and economic dynamics of capitalism as they are in the human mind. …