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Day: August 4, 2010

Emotional Accounting Part 1 (complementing mental accounting)

My good friend, Jonathan Levav, and I recently published a paper in the Journal of Marketing Research that examines how people’s feelings about money influence their consumer choices.  The abstract pretty much says it all: Mental accounting posits that people track their expenditures using cognitive categories or “mental accounts.” The authors propose that this cognitive […]