Ownership and value go together, and understanding both is imperative for children to know
how to act in socially appropriate and advantageous ways. This paper reviews how children …

Consumers regularly encounter cues of contagious disease in daily life—a commuter
sneezes on the train, a colleague blows their nose in a meeting, or they read recent …

Physical cleansing is a human universal. It serves health and survival functions. It also
carries rich psychological meanings that interest scholars across disciplines. What …

Nine studies find that people believe their money has greater purchasing power than the
same quantity of others' money. Using a variety of products from socks to clocks to …

Consumers rely on physical touch in offline shopping and vicarious touch (ie, imagining
touch) in online shopping to develop their attitudes toward a product. The subject of how …

Saving has an important impact on consumers' lives and life satisfaction. However, various
indices indicate that consumers do not save enough. This research shows that a simple …

Previous research has demonstrated two key ways in which the original conceptualization of
the law of contagion fails to account for numerous empirical findings:(1) contact is not the …

This research examines how the type of money (cash vs. digital) affects consumers'
perceived purchasing power (PPP) of the money and the mediating mechanisms of …

This research investigates the influence of disgust, as an emotion, on charitable giving. We
propose that feeling disgusted decreases consumers' engagement in charitable behavior …

Although traditional economic models posit that money is fungible, psychological research
abounds with examples that deviate from this assumption. Across eight experiments, we …