We describe two collaborations in which psychologists and economists provided essential support on foundational projects in major research programs. One project involved eliciting adolescents' expectations regarding significant future life events affecting their psychological and economic development. The second project involved eliciting consumers' expectations regarding inflation, a potential...

The continuing transformation in a single market has created a need for exploring common consumer attitudes for clothing brands in Europe. This paper responds to this need to develop marketing strategies for a single European market. The purpose of this study is to analyze clothing brands consumption in Mediterranean countries. Specifically, the study aims to explore Greek and Portuguese young ...

BACKGROUND Uni-dimensional measures of alcohol consumption may be unable to fully capture the complexity of adolescent drinking and experience of alcohol-related harms. Latent class analysis provides an empirical method to understand different adolescent drinking patterns. METHODS Latent class analysis was used to create typologies of drinking among the 5018 current drinkers in the national Y...

OBJECTIVE Compulsive buying disorder was first described as a psychiatric syndrome in the early twentieth century. Its classification remains elusive, and investigators have debated its potential relationship to mood, substance use, obsessive-compulsive, and impulse control disorders. The objective of this study is to present a review of compulsive buying disorder and present a case vignette. ...