This paper reviews psychological studies of real‐life use of credit, debt, and
overindebtedness, with the aim of making policy recommendations that could reduce the …

Consumer over-indebtedness has increased globally in recent decades, along with
consumer credit. This article presents a systematic literature review on the topic of consumer …

Consumer resistance and inertia related behaviors are as important as adoption behaviors.
Resistance can lead to unwillingness on the part of the investors to invest in a particular …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how heuristics are formed and whether
herding and prospect theory act as antecedents to heuristics. The relationship is explored …

Phishing is a confidence trick with damaging impacts on both individuals and society as a
whole. In this paper, we examine the possible role of thinking styles, as assessed by the …

Purpose This paper aims to revisit the issue of anchoring effects in real estate markets to
consider the current dual-processing theory of mind. Design/methodology/approach The …

Buyers of residential real estate frequently experience dissatisfaction with the property they
have purchased. Recent findings suggest that insufficient knowledge about the property is a …

Phishing is a form of online identity theft that aims to steal sensitive information such as
online banking passwords and credit card information from users. Data is key for the digital …

We investigate to what extent high-income consumers are less hyperbolic than low-income
consumers using a sample of 216 bank customers and 796 undergraduates. We assess …

We replicate the finding that females perform better than males in the task switching type of
multitasking. We also find that multitasking impairs cognitive reflection through ego …