Archive for March 5th, 2008

$50 bills discourage spending

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Getting Going – WSJ.com
Adults show the same tendency. In a study that appeared in the March 2006 Journal of Consumer Research, Prof. Nayakankuppam and his co-authors, Arul Mishra and Himanshu Mishra, found that people were less inclined to spend if they had, say, a $50 bill rather than 10 $5 bills.

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