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...

Diese Studie thematisiert den Einfluss von Expertise, Prominenz, Attraktivität und Geschlecht auf die Wahrnehmung von Glaubwürdigkeit. Dabei wurden Probanden mittels Online-Fragebögen mehrere Kombinationen aus verschiedenen Bildern, Aussagen sowie Hintergrundinformationen zu den abgebildeten...

Reformen haben – auch wenn sie sich langfristig positiv auf die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung auswirken – nicht immer den Rückhalt bei den Wählern, der bei rein ökonomischer Betrachtungsweise wünschenswert wäre. Wie lassen sich „unliebsame“ Reformen besser „verkaufen“? Was sollten...

Many scholars turn to emotions to understand irrational behavior. We do the opposite: we turn to rationality and game theory to understand people's emotions. We discuss a striking theory of emotions that began with the game theory of credible threats and promises, then was enriched by...

We introduce a dynamic model of emotional behavior regulation that can generalize to a wide range of decision dilemmas. Dilemmas are characterized by availability of mutually exclusive goals that a decision maker is dually motivated to pursue. In our model, previous goal pursuant decisions...

The shopping service of the store plays an important role in shaping the opinions of custom-ers in a store. Endless progress has been made on quality management of consumer services confirmed through numerous methods and standards that are based on consumers. A typical consumer receives a large...