In der Psychologie finden sich mittlerweile zahlreiche Definitionen des Begriffs Umweltbewußtsein, die auf verschiedene theoretische und forschungspraktische Konzeptionen zurückgehen und in dieser Arbeit referiert werden. Zentrale Unterscheidungsmerkmale sind dabei die zugrundeliegenden...

Diese kumulative Dissertation beinhaltet einen Literaturüberblick, sowie vier empirische Studien, die die Wirkung von Steuerprüfungen und deren Konsequenzen auf wiederholte Steuerentscheidungen untersuchen. Ausgehend vom ökonomischen Standardmodell der Steuerhinterziehung wurde ein...

This paper provides a simple autonomy-based model of human motivation in which a decision maker with divided selves must perform some task. The key presumption of the model is that the brain is not a unitary system which is equipped to achieve a single goal in a systematicmanner; rather, it...

From 2000 to 2003, when Ben Bernanke was a professor and then a Fed Governor, he wrote extensively about monetary policy at the zero bound on interest rates. He advocated aggressive stimulus policies, such as a money-financed tax cut and an inflation target of 3-4%. Yet, since U.S. interest...

The behavior of asset prices is analyzed in a general equilibrium model where agents not only have preferences over consumption but also (implicitly) over their beliefs. Agents endogenously choose to disregard information contained in a signal if it conflicts with their desired beliefs. In this...

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

Consider a situation where person A undertakes a costly action that benefits person B. This behavior seems altruistic. However, if A expects a reward in return from B, then A's action may be motivated by the expected rewards rather than by pure altruism. The question we address in this...

This paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on the psychological impact of past unemployment. Using eleven waves of the German socio-economic panel (GSOEP) data set, we show, as is now standard, that those currently unemployed have far lower life satisfaction scores than do the...