Abstract Thinking is accompanied by metacognitive experiences of ease or difficulty. People
draw on these experiences as a source of information that can complement or challenge the …

Research questions in the prosocial behavior literature focus on the pro aspect of prosocial
behavior—that is, how to motivate actions that benefit others. These questions typically …

The extant evidence evaluating consumers' willingness to pay more for green products has
been mixed. Existing investigations stem from an overemphasis on profiling consumers who …

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of
Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary conditions for the IKEA effect—the …

The SEC's emphasis on the use of plain English is designed to make disclosures more
readable and more informative. Using an experiment, I find that more readable disclosures …

The authors examine how two negative emotions—guilt and shame—influence responses to
environmental ad messages framed as gains or losses. In Study 1, participants primed with …

When someone asks,“How do you feel?”, your answer includes your bodily feelings as well
as your emotional feelings. Influential models of emotion view the embodiment of emotions …

In this study, we predict that higher levels of relative deprivation and higher levels of task
mastery constitute two pathways through which perceived overqualification (POQ) has …

Despite an emerging interest in callings, researchers know little about whether calling
orientations matter in the workplace. We explore the under-examined relationship between …