The endowment effect is the tendency for people who own a good to value it more than
people who do not. Its economic impact is consequential. It creates market inefficiencies and …

Digital goods are, in many cases, substantive innovations relative to their physical
counterparts. Yet, in five experiments, people ascribed less value to digital than to physical …

In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

Research on the effect of consumption on self-esteem is relatively scarce and related
evidence is fragmented. We review articles from the literature on consumption, advertising …

In this conceptual paper, using the lens of self-design, we examine the relationship between
consumer technology appropriation and psychological ownership, suggesting that pride …

While companies contribute in different ways to the corporate social responsibility (CSR)
issues they support, little is known about the effects of varying CSR contribution types on …

The pandemic has led to a significant increase in the use of video conferencing platforms
such as Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Yet little is known about the impact of …

Nonprofit firms' reliance on donations to build inventory distinguishes them from traditional
retailers. This reliance on consumer donations means that these organizations face an …

Implicit self-esteem (ISE), which is often defined as automatic self-evaluations, fuses
research on unconscious processes with that on self-esteem. As ISE is viewed as immune to …

Four studies demonstrate that selling and buying prices are differentially influenced by the
value of products' low-and high-level construal features. The study shows that sellers …