The Big Issue is a not-for-profit organisation that gives homeless people the opportunity to reclaim ownership over their lives by selling a street magazine. The vendors must purchase the magazine from the Big Issue office before making sales, and may do so multiple times each day. The vendors...

Mass media consumption has increasingly been found to adversely impact upon psychological states but research has largely neglected the potential influence of media onaspirations. An experiment demonstrates aspirational incomes to be dramatically altered by a textual narrative despite it not...

The relevance of present consumption bias on personal finance has been confirmed in several studies and has important theoretical and practical implications. It has important, measurable implications when analyzing commitment or self-control, adherence to healthy habits (e.g. exercising or...