Showing papers in "Journal of Economic Psychology in 2009"

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of socio-demographic variables and psychological variables in relation to household energy use and changes in energy use (viz., energy savings) was examined, and variables from the theory of planned behavior and the norm activation model were able to significantly add to the explanation of energy savings, over and above the variables from this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework which explicates the major components of consumer resistance to innovation: rejection, postponement, and opposition, and discuss two main groups of antecedents to consumer resistance: degree of change required and conflicts with the consumer's prior belief structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors, finding strong support that a higher tax morale, and a higher institutional quality lead to a smaller shadow economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that removing the information failure which GDP represents, in monitoring economic progress and guiding public policy, will lead to decisions and developments being more in line with improving human well-being.

TL;DR: The authors examined the link between income and subjective well-being using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and found that reference income has a negative effect on individual wellbeing, a result consistent with the relative utility hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present dictators with a simple visual stimulus: either three dots in a "watching-eyes" configuration, or three dot in a neutral configuration, and demonstrate that such a weak social cue does increase giving behavior.

TL;DR: This article found that thinking about or observing the behavior of others produces increased pro-social behavior, even when one expects or observes little prosocial behavior on the part of others, and that the degree of prosocial behaviour is increasing in the actual and expected pro social behaviour of others.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an experiment that completely measures the utility and loss aversion component of risk attitudes, using a representative sample of N = 1935 respondents from the general public, in a parameter free way.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results of an experiment that has been designed to evaluate several competing hypotheses to explain the stylized fact of declining contributions in repeated public goods experiments, and the data favor the hypothesis of selfish-biased conditional cooperation as the source for the declining contributions over the competing hypotheses.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of different audit patterns on future compliance was studied in two experiments, focusing on taxpayers' immediate reactions to audits and examining whether a strong decrease in compliance following an audit is caused by either misperception of chance or loss repair.

TL;DR: In the trust game paradigm, participants decided whether to hand money over to an anonymous individual who could either return more money back or keep all the money as discussed by the authors. But participants also trusted too much, in that they grossly underestimated the proportion of their peers who would return money, prompting them to forgo profitable decisions.

TL;DR: This paper proposed a social utility model of individual preferences for process fairness that complements the Fehr-Schmidt model for outcome fairness, assuming that the outcome generating process rather than actual outcomes influences fairness perceptions, and that process fairness is evaluated through comparison of expected payoffs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide empirical evidence for the link between homeownership and housing satisfaction using panel data, using the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) covering the period 1994-2001.

TL;DR: This article examined the relation between objective over-education and job satisfaction by applying a shadow price approach and found that, at labour-market entry, over education is largely involuntary, and is likely to induce negative productivity costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined both generalized indirect reciprocity (if A helps B then B helps C) and social indirect reciprocation in a setting where reciprocal behavior cannot be explained by strategic motivations, using a treatment for direct reciprocity as a benchmark.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study one-shot Dictator games where one subject has the right to determine a division of an amount of money between herself and her receiver, and find significantly fewer earning-maximizing decisions when receivers can react to offers with ex post written messages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether social value orientation as developed by Griesinger and Livingston [Griesinger, D. W., & Livingston Jr., J. W. (1973) and risk preferences can help to account for the variability of trust and trustworthiness.

TL;DR: In this paper, a tax compliance study with 5,100 and five Italian psychology and economics students was conducted to investigate the influence of detection rates, framing effects, gender and degree choice on tax evasion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a panel-based GMM methodology to estimate a dynamic model of life satisfaction and found that there is a positive and statistically significant spillover effect that runs from one partner to the other partner in a couple.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the cross-country panel fixed effects approach to exclude cross-sectional variations but exploit time-series ones to test the hypothesis whether the relationship between unemployment rates and suicide rates vary according to the level of real per capita GDP.

TL;DR: This paper showed that the activation of money and economics as aspects of a person's self-concept is one mechanism possibly producing these results and suggested that economic evaluation is one causal mechanism affecting attitudes about time use.

TL;DR: The authors carried out a survey among a large group of undergraduate students of different disciplines to test whether the study of economics influences students' view on profit maximization and the market mechanism, finding that there are significant differences between economics students and the others, suggesting the presence of both a selection bias against the market system in non-economics students and a treatment effect in economics students.

TL;DR: The United Nations General Assembly recognized the importance of people's sustainability values in driving attitudes and behaviors towards the sustainable development of globalization by declaring a set of fundamental values to be essential to international relations in the twenty-first century as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors experimentally analyze consumers' reactions to insurance default risk and find that insurance with default risk is extremely unattractive to most individuals, and that a considerable fraction of consumers completely refuse to accept any default risk; others ask for large reductions in insurance premiums.

TL;DR: The authors found that competitive pressure significantly mitigates pro-sociality in boys, while it does not affect girls' propensity to make fair decisions in a setting where dictators are in one town and receivers in another.

TL;DR: This article analyzed survey results of investors in the US using information search, demographic, psychological, and involvement variables and found that the majority of investors perform moderate-to low-information gathering strategies, while higher-educated male investors with higher earnings were more likely to practice a high-information search strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the effects of descriptive terms on farmers' willingness to use and willingness to pay for recycled water for irrigation and consumers' willingness or unwillingness to buy products irrigated with recycled water, and concluded that successful marketing strategies for this valuable resource must take into account the normative learning histories of potential consumers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of charitable giving is proposed that is predicated on Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, and it is shown that biased perceptions of effort and luck, as the causes of reward distributions, will systematically reduce warm glow of high-income households, which may help explain the essentially flat relationship between income and percentage donations to charity.

TL;DR: This article found that women's greater distaste for competition decreases educational achievement and can also explain part of the gender segregation in occupational fields, accounting for women's preference for competition in the fields of Law, Business & Management, Health, and Education.

TL;DR: The authors examined bargaining behavior in experimental ultimatum games with Malaysian and UK subjects and found significant differences in offer levels between the two national groups with reference to differences in their responses to particular dimensions of the World Values Survey questionnaire.