Feeling and Calculation: The Impact of Lay Rationalism Thinking Mode on Mental Budgeting.

ABSTRACT: Mental budgeting is a cognitive process that helps individuals control consumption expenditures. Previous literature has shown that mental budgeting is influenced by people's cognitive capabilities and emotions, which indicates a potential influence of thinking modes on mental budgeting. Under the view of lay rationalism, the present three studies investigated the relationship between thinking modes (i.e., calculation-based thinking and feeling-based thinking) and mental budgeting, as well as the moderating effect of product types that participants consume. It was found that, first, the scores of lay rationalism, which indicate calculation-based thinking, were positively correlated with the mental budgeting levels of college students (Study 1a) and newcomers in the workplace (Study 1b); se

SUBMITTER: Xin Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9510161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature