http://www.psfk.com Good Ideas Report Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:12:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/when-peer-pressure-shows-positive-results.html http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/when-peer-pressure-shows-positive-results.html#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:01:33 +0000 Scott Lachut http://www.psfk.com/?p=46786 It turns out that peer pressure might not always be such a bad thing after all, particularly when it causes us to act in beneficial ways. With the economy already affecting consumer spending habits, companies are increasingly looking at the ways behavioral economics can be influenced by public transparency and participation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/when-peer-pressure-shows-positive-results.html/feed 1 http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/shopping-the-pleasurepain-principle.html http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/shopping-the-pleasurepain-principle.html#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:59:51 +0000 Scott Lachut http://www.psfk.com/?p=25415 Recent studies conducted by researchers at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon might go a long way in explaining our spending habits or in the case of the current economic downturn, our penny-pinching ways. Apparently, during every purchase we make … [visit site to read more] © Scott Lachut for PSFK, 2009. | Permalink | 4 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: brain, economy, how we decide, jonah lehrer, spending, US Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/shopping-the-pleasurepain-principle.html/feed 4