"A Fresh Look at Fraud features psychologists, criminologists, and computer scientists to address the state-of-art research on the rising problem of fraud, scams, and financial abuse, stimulating a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, theories, methods, and practices. In this timely volume,...

Economic theories have long postulated the benefits of presenting consumers with more choice. Psychologists have advanced a similar idea, postulating that greater choice is related to consumer satisfaction. Economists and psychologists alike have come to challenge this prevailing notion....

We examined choice behavior in younger versus older adults using a medical decision-making task similar to Medicare Part D. The study was designed to assess age differences in choice processes in general and specifically designed to examine the effect of choice set size on performance. Data are...

Earlier frameworks have indicated that older adults tend to experience decline in their deliberative decisional capacity, while their affective abilities tend to remain intact (Peters, Hess, Vastfjall, and Auman, 2007). The present study applied this framework to the study of risky...