The effect of perceived scarcity: Experiencing scarcity increases risk taking

S Liang, D Ye, Y Liu - The Journal of Psychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Experiments in this research provide evidence that perceived scarcity increases risk-taking
propensity and risk-taking behavior in the real world. One laboratory experiment and two …

To take a risk or not? The effect of perceived scarcity on risky choices

S Liang, P Fan, G Yang - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Studies suggest that resource scarcity leads to risky behaviors. From a cognitive
perspective, a scarcity mindset affects the decision-making process. Does perceived scarcity …

Does poverty promote a different and harmful way of thinking? The links between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk behaviors

A Caballero, I Fernández, P Aguilar, D Muñoz… - Current …, 2023 - Springer
We tested the relationships between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk
behaviors. We manipulated the lack of economic resources using a priming task in Studies 1 …

Psychological responses to scarcity

J Zhao, BM Tomm - Oxford research encyclopedia of psychology, 2018 - oxfordre.com
Scarcity is the condition of having insufficient resources to cope with demands. This
condition presents significant challenges to the human cognitive system. For example …

[HTML][HTML] Financial scarcity increases discounting of gains and losses: Experimental evidence from a household task

LP Hilbert, MK Noordewier, WW van Dijk - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
People experience financial scarcity when they have insufficient financial resources to meet
demands, and this experience can affect decision-making in various ways. One proposed …

An initial model of scarcity.

M De Sousa, AH Peterman, CL Reeve - Qualitative Psychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Traditional socioeconomic indicators used in most of the literature fail to fully capture the
relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and behavior. The use of additional …

Find me strength in things: Fear can explain materialism

SJ Longmire, EY Chan, CA Lawry - Psychology & Marketing, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals feel fear when they face potential dangers and threats. It causes individuals to
take actions and make choices that help them face the threat, such as by seeking out others …

[PDF][PDF] Scarcity: Unavailability and behavioral costs

TMM Verhallen - 1984 - research.tilburguniversity.edu
Scarcity: Unavailability and behavioral costs Tilburg University Scarcity Verhallen, TMM
Publication date: 1984 Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record …

Scarcity's enhancement of desirability: The role of naive economic theories

M Lynn - Basic and applied social psychology, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
According to psychological research, scarcity increases an object's desirability. Although
inconsistent with the assumptions of formal economic theory, this effect of scarcity may be …

Overharvesting of resources of unknown size

M Gustafsson, A Biel, T Gärling - Acta Psychologica, 1999 - Elsevier
In two resource-dilemma experiments participants were free to request an amount from an
available resource whose size was a random variable with a uniform distribution either …