Papers Published Articles and Selected Working Papers Rick, Scott (2024), Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships, St. Martin’s Press. Money and Marriage, Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts Olson, Jenny, and Scott Rick (2023), “Subjective Knowledge Differences within Couples Predict Influence Over Shared Financial Decisions,” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Debt Management, Money and Marriage, Money Relationships, Research, Research Highlights, Shopping Debt Olson, Jenny, Scott Rick, Deborah Small, and Eli Finkel (2023), “Common Cents: Bank Account Structure and Couples’ Relationship Dynamics,” Journal of Consumer Research. Money and Marriage, Money Relationships, Research, Research Highlights Olson, Jenny, and Scott Rick (2022), “You Spent How Much? Toward an Understanding of How Romantic Partners Respond to Each Other’s Financial Decisions,” Current Opinion in Psychology, 43 (February), 70-74. Money Relationships, Research, Research Highlights Smith, Craig, Margaret Echelbarger, Susan Gelman, and Scott Rick (2018), “Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Childhood: Feelings about Spending Predict Children’s Financial Decision Making,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31 (3), 446-460. Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts Rick, Scott, Gabriele Paolacci, and Katherine Burson (2018), “Income Tax and the Motivation to Work,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31 (5), 619-631. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Rick, Scott (2018), “Tightwads and Spendthrifts: An Interdisciplinary Review,” Financial Planning Review, 1, e1010. Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts Olson, Jenny, Scott Rick, and Eli Finkel, “A Penny Saved is a Partner Earned: The Romantic Appeal of Savers” Money Relationships, Research, Social Cognition Madrian, Brigitte, Hal Hershfield, Abigail Sussman, Saurabh Bhargava, Jeremy Burke, Scott Huettel, Julian Jamison, Eric Johnson, John Lynch, Stephan Meier, Scott Rick, and Suzanne Shu (2017), “Behaviorally Informed Policies for Household Financial Decision-Making,” Behavioral Science & Policy, 3 (1), 27-40. Research, Shopping Debt Rick, Scott, Beatriz Pereira, and Katherine Burson (2014), “The Benefits of Retail Therapy: Making Purchase Decisions Reduces Residual Sadness,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 24 (3), 373-380. Research, Shopping Debt John, Leslie, George Loewenstein, and Scott Rick (2014), “Cheating More For Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 123 (2), 101-109. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Rick, Scott and Maurice Schweitzer (2013), “The Imbibing Idiot Bias: Consuming Alcohol Can be Hazardous to Your (Perceived) Intelligence,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23 (2), 212-219. Research, Social Cognition Amar, Moty, Dan Ariely, Shahar Ayal, Cynthia Cryder, and Scott Rick (2011), “Winning the Battle but Losing the War: The Psychology of Debt Management,” Journal of Marketing Research, 48 (Special Issue), S38-S50. Research, Shopping Debt Rick, Scott, Deborah Small, and Eli Finkel (2011), “Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction: Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Marriage,” Journal of Marketing Research, 48 (2), 228-237. Money Relationships, Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts Paolacci, Gabriele, Katherine Burson, and Scott Rick (2011), “The Intermediate Alternative Effect: Considering a Small Tradeoff Increases Subsequent Willingness to Make Large Tradeoffs,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21 (4), 384-392. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Rick, Scott (2011), “Losses, Gains, and Brains: Neuroeconomics Can Help to Answer Open Questions about Loss Aversion,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21 (4), 453-463. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Rick, Scott and Roberto Weber (2010), “Meaningful Learning and Transfer of Learning in Games Played Repeatedly Without Feedback,” Games and Economic Behavior, 68 (2), 716-730. Research Rick, Scott and George Loewenstein (2008), “Hypermotivation,” Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (6), 645-648. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Loewenstein, George, Scott Rick, and Jonathan D. Cohen (2008), “Neuroeconomics,” Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 647-672. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Knutson, Brian, Elliott Wimmer, Scott Rick, Nick Hollon, Drazen Prelec, and George Loewenstein (2008), “Neural Antecedents of the Endowment Effect,” Neuron, 58, 814-822. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Rick, Scott and George Loewenstein (2008), “Intangibility in Intertemporal Choice,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363 (1511), 3813-3824. Judgment and Decision Making, Research Rick, Scott, Cynthia Cryder, and George Loewenstein (2008), “Tightwads and Spendthrifts,” Journal of Consumer Research, 34 (6), 767-782. Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts Hamman, John, Scott Rick, and Roberto Weber (2007), “Solving Coordination Failure with ‘All-or-None’ Group-Level Incentives,” Experimental Economics, 10 (3), 285-303. Research Knutson, Brian, Scott Rick, Elliott Wimmer, Drazen Prelec, and George Loewenstein (2007), “Neural Predictors of Purchases,” Neuron, 53, 147-156. Research, Shopping Debt
Rick, Scott (2024), Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships, St. Martin’s Press. Money and Marriage, Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts
Olson, Jenny, and Scott Rick (2023), “Subjective Knowledge Differences within Couples Predict Influence Over Shared Financial Decisions,” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Debt Management, Money and Marriage, Money Relationships, Research, Research Highlights, Shopping Debt
Olson, Jenny, Scott Rick, Deborah Small, and Eli Finkel (2023), “Common Cents: Bank Account Structure and Couples’ Relationship Dynamics,” Journal of Consumer Research. Money and Marriage, Money Relationships, Research, Research Highlights
Olson, Jenny, and Scott Rick (2022), “You Spent How Much? Toward an Understanding of How Romantic Partners Respond to Each Other’s Financial Decisions,” Current Opinion in Psychology, 43 (February), 70-74. Money Relationships, Research, Research Highlights
Smith, Craig, Margaret Echelbarger, Susan Gelman, and Scott Rick (2018), “Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Childhood: Feelings about Spending Predict Children’s Financial Decision Making,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31 (3), 446-460. Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts
Rick, Scott, Gabriele Paolacci, and Katherine Burson (2018), “Income Tax and the Motivation to Work,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31 (5), 619-631. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Rick, Scott (2018), “Tightwads and Spendthrifts: An Interdisciplinary Review,” Financial Planning Review, 1, e1010. Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts
Olson, Jenny, Scott Rick, and Eli Finkel, “A Penny Saved is a Partner Earned: The Romantic Appeal of Savers” Money Relationships, Research, Social Cognition
Madrian, Brigitte, Hal Hershfield, Abigail Sussman, Saurabh Bhargava, Jeremy Burke, Scott Huettel, Julian Jamison, Eric Johnson, John Lynch, Stephan Meier, Scott Rick, and Suzanne Shu (2017), “Behaviorally Informed Policies for Household Financial Decision-Making,” Behavioral Science & Policy, 3 (1), 27-40. Research, Shopping Debt
Rick, Scott, Beatriz Pereira, and Katherine Burson (2014), “The Benefits of Retail Therapy: Making Purchase Decisions Reduces Residual Sadness,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 24 (3), 373-380. Research, Shopping Debt
John, Leslie, George Loewenstein, and Scott Rick (2014), “Cheating More For Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 123 (2), 101-109. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Rick, Scott and Maurice Schweitzer (2013), “The Imbibing Idiot Bias: Consuming Alcohol Can be Hazardous to Your (Perceived) Intelligence,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23 (2), 212-219. Research, Social Cognition
Amar, Moty, Dan Ariely, Shahar Ayal, Cynthia Cryder, and Scott Rick (2011), “Winning the Battle but Losing the War: The Psychology of Debt Management,” Journal of Marketing Research, 48 (Special Issue), S38-S50. Research, Shopping Debt
Rick, Scott, Deborah Small, and Eli Finkel (2011), “Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction: Spendthrifts and Tightwads in Marriage,” Journal of Marketing Research, 48 (2), 228-237. Money Relationships, Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts
Paolacci, Gabriele, Katherine Burson, and Scott Rick (2011), “The Intermediate Alternative Effect: Considering a Small Tradeoff Increases Subsequent Willingness to Make Large Tradeoffs,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21 (4), 384-392. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Rick, Scott (2011), “Losses, Gains, and Brains: Neuroeconomics Can Help to Answer Open Questions about Loss Aversion,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21 (4), 453-463. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Rick, Scott and Roberto Weber (2010), “Meaningful Learning and Transfer of Learning in Games Played Repeatedly Without Feedback,” Games and Economic Behavior, 68 (2), 716-730. Research
Rick, Scott and George Loewenstein (2008), “Hypermotivation,” Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (6), 645-648. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Loewenstein, George, Scott Rick, and Jonathan D. Cohen (2008), “Neuroeconomics,” Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 647-672. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Knutson, Brian, Elliott Wimmer, Scott Rick, Nick Hollon, Drazen Prelec, and George Loewenstein (2008), “Neural Antecedents of the Endowment Effect,” Neuron, 58, 814-822. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Rick, Scott and George Loewenstein (2008), “Intangibility in Intertemporal Choice,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363 (1511), 3813-3824. Judgment and Decision Making, Research
Rick, Scott, Cynthia Cryder, and George Loewenstein (2008), “Tightwads and Spendthrifts,” Journal of Consumer Research, 34 (6), 767-782. Research, Tightwads and Spendthrifts
Hamman, John, Scott Rick, and Roberto Weber (2007), “Solving Coordination Failure with ‘All-or-None’ Group-Level Incentives,” Experimental Economics, 10 (3), 285-303. Research
Knutson, Brian, Scott Rick, Elliott Wimmer, Drazen Prelec, and George Loewenstein (2007), “Neural Predictors of Purchases,” Neuron, 53, 147-156. Research, Shopping Debt
