Shifting Selves and Decision Making: The Effects of Self-Construal Priming on Consumer Risk-Taking

Naomi Mandel

Journal of Consumer Research, 2003, vol. 30, issue 1, 30-40

Abstract: This research illustrates how risk domain moderates the effects of priming the interdependent self versus the independent self on consumers' risk-taking. Experiment 1 showed that individuals whose interdependent selves were activated were more risk-seeking in their financial choices and less risk-seeking in their social choices than were those whose independent selves were activated. The size of the consumer's social network mediated these effects. Experiment 2 replicated these results using audiovisual movie clips as manipulations. Copyright 2003 by the University of Chicago.

Date: 2003
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