Excessive buying as boredom-triggered behavior.

Excessive buying as boredom-triggered behavior (Research grant financed by National Science Centre in Poland; PI: Agata Gasiorowska)The aim of the present project is to empirically investigate the relation between boredom and excessive buying, which might serve both as a stimulating activity and a compensatory tool aimed at retrieving the sense of meaning when one experiences…

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Mental imagery, emotions, and decisions under risk and uncertainty: Visualizing the future as an aid to decision making.

Mental imagery, emotions, and decisions under risk and uncertainty: Visualizing the future as an aid to decision making. (Research grant financed by National Science Centre in Poland; PI: Tomasz Zaleskiewicz)This project introduces a novel theoretical approach for understanding and predicting people’s behavior in common everyday situations under risk and uncertainty. It posits that the interplay…

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Money and Ethics: The consequences of market-oriented mindset evoked by money for obeying or violating ethical standards.

Money and Ethics: The consequences of market-oriented mindset evoked by money for obeying or violating ethical standards. (Research grant financed by National Science Centre in Poland; PI: Tomasz Zaleskiewicz)The main goal of the present project is to experimentally investigate positive and negative ethical consequences of being in the market-oriented state of mind. On the basis…

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