In a sample of 72 undergraduate students at a university, purchasing textbooks online was predicted by possession of computer/Internet skills, having a retentive attitude towards money and dissatisfaction with the university bookstore.

This study explored predictors of credit card debt and foreclosure rates in the states of the USA, based on the average personality scores of the residents of the states obtained from an Internet questionnaire completed by 619 397 residents (Rentfrow <italic>et al.,</italic> 2008). It was found that states whose...

Akerof and Dickens explored the relevance of cognitive dissonance theory for economics, and the theory is shown here to predict occasional irrational thinking. Secondly, it is proposed that the focus of neuroeconomics on brain dysfunction and the role of neurotranmitters on cognition suggests...

Cloninger (1992) applied the portfolio approach to criminal behaviour and illustrated the deterrent effect of capital punishment by use of data from 1983-1988 across the states of America and the District of Columbia. This comment suggests two possible flaws in Cloninger's analyses, which, if...

In a sample of 139 community residents, attitudes toward money and credit cards were found to be associated with a measure of prefrontal cortex dysfunction (FrSBe), even after controls for age, sex, education and income. The results provide support for a neuroeconomic approach to the study of...