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The focus of this paper is placed on the role of emotions in consumer behavior, specifically in the process of …, decision-making and the impact of emotions on it, while the empirical research portion of this paper details the attitudes of … consumers who buy food supplements, the role and importance of different emotions that have a greater or a lesser impact on the …
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Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and...
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Mehr als die Hälfte der Erwachsenen in Deutschland ist übergewichtig. Besonders oft betroffen sind Ältere, Arme und Menschen mit geringer Bildung. Ein Thema für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler? Ernährung und fehlende Bewegung sind entscheidende Faktoren für wichtige Volkskrankheiten. Für durch...
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Vor zehn Jahren haben erste Unternehmen damit begonnen, ihre Käuferschaft nach dem "Pay-what-you-want"-Prinzip entscheiden zu lassen, wieviel sie für eine in Anspruch genommene Leistung zahlen will. Parallel dazu hat die Verhaltensökonomik in Laborexperimenten oder Feldversuchen bestätigt,...
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Currently, multi-attribute auctions are becoming widespread awarding mechanisms for contracts in construction, and in these auctions, criteria other than price are taken into account for ranking bidder proposals. Therefore, being the lowest-price bidder is no longer a guarantee of being awarded,...
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This paper uses proprietary data comprising of 4,155 participants who attended financial education seminars conducted by a major U.S. consumer credit counseling agency in 2007. In this study, knowledge gained from attending the seminars is estimated using a multivariate regression model. Results...
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This study uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine whether self-regulation, proxied by regularly dining together with family, is associated with better financial preparedness and greater wealth accumulation across time among households. Findings reveal that individuals who...
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A number of sociological theories argue that the experience of emotion is associated with social inequality. Despite … elaborate theoretical work, empirical studies are still rare and incoherent in their attempts at measuring emotion. As a … the sociologically most relevant emotions, namely anger and anxiety. Using representative data from the German Socio …
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Face-to-face interactions are a crucial part of services. However, research that investigates the dynamics of service encounters is still rare. In this study we used a theoretical framework that aligned the concept of interpersonal complementarity with Mehrabian and Russell's (1974)...
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Until recently, emotions were not one of the most precious elements of marketing. There are theoretical and empirical … models that show that emotions affect perception, decision, motivation, and consumer behaviour of the Elaboration Likelihood … how emotions can impact on marketing. …
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