Moral learning and decision-making are crucial throughout our lives, from infancy to old age.
Emerging evidence suggests that there are important differences in learning and deciding in …

Adolescence is a time of heightened risk-taking behaviours. Such risk taking does not occur
in a vacuum because most decisions of adolescents to engage in risky behaviours are …

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of financial social comparison and
materialism in the relationship between heavy social networking and online compulsive …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide the overview of factors responsible for
materialism and compulsive buying among adolescents and young adults. In today's world …

This research seeks to determine what makes young adults materialistic. The study
examines the mediating role of materialism between the contextual factors and compulsive …

Although the theory of epistemic trust has started informing research in clinical populations
and psychotherapy, no study has yet explored the phenomenon of epistemic trust and …

Introduction Mentalization, operationalized as reflective functioning (RF), allows individuals
to interpret actions as caused by intentional mental states. Previous research highlighted the …

A Trust Game was used to examine trust and reciprocity development in 12–18‐year‐old‐
adolescents (N= 496), as findings have been conflicting and transitions in adolescence …

Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of social media sites and television
advertisements on compulsive shopping behavior, and whether this influence is mediated …

Our social interactions take place within numerous social networks, in which our
relationships with others define our position within these networks. In this study, we …