Pettit and Sivanathan (2011)found That If People Experienced Threat to Self-Esteem

question 102

Multiple Choice

Pettit and Sivanathan (2011) found that if people experienced threat to self-esteem, they were more likely to make a status-driven purchase with credit.This sort of study is part of the newly emerging field of

• A) behavioral economics.
• B) social neuroscience.
• C) multicultural research.
• D) embodied cognition.

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