Elizabeth Howlett

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine potential explanations of why consumers have difficulty making personal financial decisions that will most beneficial in the long run, and find that consumers who express higher levels of future orientation are more likely to participate in a retirement plan.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how accurately consumers estimate calorie, fat, and sodium content and explore how objective nutrition information may influence product evaluations, perceptions, and purchase intentions within the context of quick service restaurant meals.

TL;DR: In this article, a field study, experiment, and consumer food diaries were used to explore how nutrition information disclosure on menus may influence consumers' product evaluations and consumption behaviors in the context of away-from-home food consumption.

TL;DR: Lauricella et al. as discussed by the authors explored whether a modified method of supplemental information disclosure impacts investors' fund evaluations and investment intentions and found that while investors continue to place too much emphasis on prior performance, supplemental information, particularly in a graphical format, interacts with performance and investment knowledge to influence perceptions and evaluations of mutual funds.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of alternative front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labeling systems on shoppers' product evaluations, choices, and retailer evaluations and found that when a single food item is evaluated in isolation, both the reductive and evaluative systems had a positive effect on product evaluations.