Buyer's Remorse Research Articles

Buyer Remorse - Insights into controllable factors in the timeshare industry

Buyer Remorse - Insights into controllable factors in the timeshare industry

Eliminating buyer's remorse: An examination of the sunk cost fallacy in the National Hockey League draft.

The sunk cost effect describes the tendency to escalate one's commitment toward a certain endeavor, despite diminishing returns, as a consequence of irreversible resource expenditure that has already been made (Organ Behav Hum Decis Process. 1985;35:124). This effect has been observed in a number of professional sports leagues, wherein teams escalate their commitment toward players selected early in the draft, regardless of performance outcomes, due to large financial commitments invested in them (J Sports Econom. 2017;18:282; Adm Sci Q. 1995;40:474). This effect, however, has yet to be explored in the National Hockey League (NHL). The purpose of this study was to test for sunk cost effects in the NHL, by examining the relationship between draft order and playing time, while controlling for a myriad of confounding variables. Findings from our analyses provide support for the existence of this effect in the NHL, as first-round draftees were given significantly more playing time than their peers selected in the second round, regardless of injury, player relocation, penalties, or on-ice performance outcomes. We offer some plausible underlying mechanisms driving this effect. Furthermore, we suggest the observed effects have valuable implications for NHL talent development, given the importance of playing time on various aspects of expertise attainment.

Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism

Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism

A Price of Success, or Buyer's Remorse? The Tension between the United Nations Sanctions and the United States' Unilateral Approach

A Price of Success, or Buyer's Remorse? The Tension between the United Nations Sanctions and the United States' Unilateral Approach

Insuring Well‐Being? Buyer's Remorse and Peace of Mind Effects From Insurance

AbstractWe estimate the causal effects of index insurance coverage on subjective well‐being among livestock herders in southern Ethiopia. By exploiting the randomized distribution of discount coupons and information treatments to instrument for the purchase of index‐based livestock insurance, and three rounds of panel data, we separately identify ex ante welfare gains from insurance that reduces risk exposure and ex post buyer's remorse effects that may arise after the resolution of uncertainty. We find that current insurance coverage generates subjective well‐being gains that are significantly higher than the buyer's remorse effect of an insurance policy that lapsed without paying out. Given the positive correlation in insurance purchase propensity over time, failure to control for potential buyer's remorse effects can bias downward estimates of welfare gains from current insurance coverage.

A139 - Buyer's Remorse: What predicts post-decision dissonance after bariatric surgery?

A139 - Buyer's Remorse: What predicts post-decision dissonance after bariatric surgery?

Emotions and sentiment: An exploration of artist websites

Artists of all genres express their emotions through their creations and market their works online. We argue that in marketing their work online, it is important to understand not only the emotional responses of the artistic works themselves but also that the sentiment evoked on their websites matters. Developing the correct website sentiment can have favorable consequences. It can increase the interest of potential consumers, assure that appropriate expectations are set for the actual consumption experience, and lead to increased sales and word of mouth marketing. Online sentiment that is ill‐aligned to the emotions the actual offering evokes can have adverse consequences, including disappointment with the actual offering and buyer's remorse. To better understand the online sentiment of artists' websites, we begin by briefly revisiting the interplay between art, emotions, and the issue of online “sentiment.” Then, we describe a study of a sample of artists' websites that had the objective of gauging both the nature of and the extent of the emotions present in its text, as well as gaining an indication of the sentiment of the website. We describe the use of a relatively new content analysis tool to do this. Following this, we explore the data gathered, with the specific purpose of determining whether the emptions expressed on artists' websites can significantly predict sentiment, if so, which emotions tend to be the strongest predictors. We conclude by discussing some managerial implications of the results and by identifying avenues for future research.

The Relentless Memorial

This manuscript, per the author, will explain “Environmental Melancholia” and “Collective Social Mania,” and describe how they are connected in a hedonic loop of capitalism and buyer's remorse. This manuscript will also explain the role of symbolism and symbolic acts in healing one's grief, and the connection it has to art. The materials used in the artwork, Relentless Memorial, reference the unyielding pollution and mass production of goods created by the petroleum industry, as well as creating a dichotomy between a clean, white, virgin plastic to an ever-increasingly polluted, contaminated world. The formal presentation of Relentless Memorial as an installation is intended to provide a place of contemplation and mourning. Furthermore, the presentation of the installation as a panorama is related to the phenomenon of panoramas of the nineteenth century, and the onset of environmental pollution during the industrial revolution of that time. It invites a layered investigation into how that industry has influenced the environmental melancholia felt by society today.

The Family Medicine specialty: buyer's remorse or reluctant seller?

This year, we celebrate the first 10 years since the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) approved the specialty of Family Medicine in 2003. It is an opportune time to review the progress made. Elsewhere in this journal, Couper, Fehrsen and Hugo 1 raise concerns about the “state” of family medicine in South Africa at the present time. They postulate that we need to change direction, as we are training the wrong kind of family physician for the needs of the South African population. They argue that we should have shorter postgraduate training that focuses more on “primary care” skills necessary for ambulatory care in clinics, and that we should conduct less training on “procedural and technical” skills required to work in a district hospital, citing the examples of Brazil and Cuba as the models we should follow.

Buyer's remorse or missed opportunity? Differential regrets for material and experiential purchases.

Previous research has established that experiential purchases tend to yield greater enduring satisfaction than material purchases. The present work suggests that this difference in satisfaction is paralleled by a tendency for material and experiential purchases to differ in the types of regrets they elicit. In 5 studies, we find that people's material purchase decisions are more likely to generate regrets of action (buyer's remorse) and their experiential purchase decisions are more likely to lead to regrets of inaction (missed opportunities). These results were not attributable to differences in the desirability of or satisfaction provided by the two purchase types. Demonstrating the robustness of this effect, we found that focusing participants on the material versus experiential properties of the very same purchase was enough to shift its dominant type of regret. This pattern of regret is driven by the tendency for experiences to be seen as more singular--less interchangeable--than material purchases; interchangeable goods tend to yield regrets of action, whereas singular goods tend to yield regrets of inaction.

Texas Juries, Buyer's Remorse, and Booker's Fatal Flaw

100 Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 100–103, ISSN 1053-9867 electronic ISSN 1533-8363. ©2010 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Please direct requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/fsr.2009.22.2.100. Texas Juries, Buyer’s Remorse, and Booker’s Fatal Flaw

Responsibility to Protect: Coming of Age?

The World Summit in 2005 unanimously adopted the principle that countries have a responsibility to protect their citizens from mass atrocity crimes and that, if they are unable or unwilling to do so, the responsibility shifts to the international community. Difficult issues of implementation and a sense of 'buyer's remorse' among some countries, however, stalled its practical application on the ground. In 2008, the concept was considered by policymakers and practitioners in the context of at least four crises: post-electoral violence in Kenya; the response to the humanitarian disaster caused by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar; the conflict between Russia and Georgia; and the political and economic implosion in Zimbabwe. The principle proved useful in facilitating the role of prominent African mediators in bringing at least a temporary respite in Kenya and applying regional pressure that opened the door to outside assistance in Myanmar. On Russia-Georgia, the international community's broad rejection of Russia's misuse of the concept to justify its intervention helped define the parameters for the principle's use. In Zimbabwe, however, the lack of regional support and the intransigence and indifference of President Robert Mugabe and his regime demonstrated severe limitations on the practical application of the principle. Looking ahead, advocates of responsibility to protect must advance and consolidate the World Summit consensus, resisting backsliding; enshrine its principles in relevant international, regional and national institutions; and build capacity within international institutions, regional organisations, and governments: civilian and military, preventive and reactive.

Buyer's remorse: A personal and revealing look into what we want and why we shouldn't.

Buyer's remorse: A personal and revealing look into what we want and why we shouldn't.

Venture capitalists' confidence, capital commitments, and capital investments

Confidence among consumers and managers continues to be a closely watched economic indicator. Venture capitalists are essential in the development of many high-growth ventures; however, VC sentiment has not before been systematically tracked. We surveyed VC confidence quarterly since Q1 2004 and find that increasing VC confidence is coincident with increasing VC investment; however, VC confidence decreases one quarter after their increased investment activity, possibly due to buyer's remorse. Additionally, VC confidence decreases one quarter after increasing capital commitments to VC industry funds, possibly due to concern of too much money chasing too few good deals.

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Reviewed by: Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self Edward R. Garrity Jr. By Lesley A. A. Sharp. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2006. Pp. 322. $24.95 (paper). In Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self, Lesley Sharp engages her readers in an exploration of organ transplantation. Her leadership guides the reader on both a philosophical and a sociological journey into Organ Transfer, the term she prefers for her long-standing field studies. This is not light reading for the simple passage of time, but rather a challenging study of a field imbued with emotion, religion, spirituality, and personal acceptance of very difficult problems. How individuals deal with the issues addressed forms the structure of the discussion, from the vivid descriptions of the heartbreaking realization that a loved one has died, to the all-too-real problem that donor families may be directed how to grieve their losses and recipients celebrate their gains. Sharp deals with the topics in four chapters, with detail gathered from interviews with recipients, donor families and especially donor mothers, organ procurement organization representatives, and transplant professionals. Each chapter deals with a different issue and its subissues in a scholarly way. Sharp has produced a treatise that reflects unique insight into provocative areas, grounded in sound research. This is a timely and highly educational text suited for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as those involved in transplantation. It is thoroughly engaging and provides new views into some murky areas of transplantation. The first chapter,"We Are the Dead Men," deals with the never-ending controversy surrounding brain death. Among the questions addressed are the definition of brain death, the possibility of the twice or even thrice dead, and, if donors are dead, why anesthesia is a part of the donor operation. As a transplant physician, I find these topics engaging, challenging, highly stimulating, and sometimes bothersome, each begging for ongoing and thorough exploration of the unknown or unknowable. From the viewpoint of the non-medical public (especially donor kin), each issue accentuates the emotion of the donor situation and the fragile understanding we have about the process of death, and certainly its timing. Chapter 2,"Memory Work," details the feelings and communications of transplant recipients and donor relations, as well as perceptions from the outside world of the non-transplanted. Central to this chapter are the memories of the recipients of their prior lives and of their donors; of donor families for their loved ones; and of the uninitiated into the touchy struggles of transplant recipients. Rare is the individual recipient who suffers no buyer's remorse over the receipt of an organ and has no challenges in ongoing life. Rare is the donor family (especially mother) who feels that their loved one has received all the recognition deserved. And rarer still are the non-involved who can understand the trials of either the recipient or the donor family. Particularly difficult is the [End Page 302] perception of censoring felt by the donor family who wish to publicly memorialize the dead but are directed to stick with a scripted and palatable formula for public discussion. Sharp describes both the emotions felt in this circumstance and the hostility that may result, and how transplant public policy is evolving due to the efforts of those who see the control as unwarranted and overly sanitized. The result is that Sharp captures the sense of denial of grieving that many donor families feel and the complex sensations of the recipients, who are sometimes asked to suffer silently because they have been given a gift and are thus expected to just be grateful.This chapter provides a clear view into these several problems. Chapter 3, "Public Encounters as Subversive Acts," addresses the issues surrounding the discovery and identification of anonymous donors or recipients of their organs. It is only relatively recently that much attention has been paid to donors and their families by the transplant community or that various fetes have been held in honor of the recipients. Based on the old premise that organ donation ought to be anonymous, the hide-and-seek of a recipient's search for donor information was...

Discovery of Consulting Psychiatric and Psychological Experts

To enjoy the excitement and financial rewards of participating in complex legal strategies, while avoiding the exposure of their own work to cross-examination, many psychiatrists and psychologists choose to serve as consultants, operating behind the scenes at what seems like a safe distance from the witness stand. In certain situations, however, rules provide for the discovery of consultants for “good cause” and under “exceptional circumstances.” This article analyzes such situations via a review of cases grouped into three categories: (1) discovery of “real” consulting experts; (2) discovery of “sheltered” experts; and (3) discovery in the event of “buyer's remorse.” Judicial reassignment of consulting and testifying roles threatens the adversary system by dissuading participation from experts leery of unplanned role assignments. Counsel is best advised to anticipate such problems and to guide consultants accordingly.

Buyer's Remorse: The Relationship between Local Economic Circumstances and Special District Policies

Burns argues that the creation of local governments is not a politically neutral act. From the 1950s through the 1980s, many governments in the United States were incorporated to provide publicly funded infrastructure for private developments and reduce the tax burdens of manufacturers. Although it is unclear whether or not the factors necessary for the formation of special districts had any impact upon subsequent district policies in either 1972, 1982, or 1992. Using U.S. Bureau of the Census data sets, I demonstrate that manufacturers maintained their influence over municipality‐sized special districts, but not county‐sized districts. The study also finds that private development had some impact upon the policies of county‐sized districts as did the racial composition of those counties. Finally, state statutes restricting local governmental behavior had a strong effect upon the policies of both county‐sized and municipal‐sized districts for most periods under examination.

Shop 'til you drop: consumer behavior and American culture

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 1 What Are Consumer Cultures? Chapter 4 2 Data on Consumer Cultures Chapter 5 3 The Act of Consumption Chapter 6 4 Perspectives on Consumption Chapter 7 5 The Semiotics of Shopping Chapter 8 6 Malls and the American Consumer Culture Chapter 9 7 Tourism and Consumer Culture Chapter 10 8 Buyer's Remorse Chapter 11 References

Repenser NAFTA Chapter 11: A Catalogue of Legitimacy Critiques

No feature of NAFTA is more often criticized than Chapter 11. It has proved to be a lightning rod for anti-NAFTA and anti-globalization critics. Environmentalists, labor organizers and human rights advocates all decry its secrecy, its potential disruptiveness to ordinary lawmaking and its placing of investors' interests before those of the broader public. Chapter 11 is portrayed as a great give-away - an elaborate ruse to evade checks on corporate activity in the three NAFTA countries. Nor do any of the three NAFTA Parties - the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico - seem particularly pleased with Chapter 11's operation. There is more than a little buyer's remorse evident. All three nations share a general discomfort with the extensive reach Chapter 11 has displayed. Through an unanticipated flow of decisions, Chapter 11 tribunals have entertained - if not endorsed - far more extravagant investment claims than were likely imagined by the three nations while negotiating Chapter 11's substantive terms. Such widespread unhappiness with Chapter 11 is somewhat unanticipated, as Chapter 11 attracted little attention during its negotiations. Indeed, it is now viewed as having been something of a Trojan Horse: seemingly benign upon first delivery, but later understood to have brought destruction to national democratic institutions. Many of the attacks on Chapter 11 are expressed in terms of a lack of legitimacy. The exercise of authority by Chapter 11 tribunals over public decisions seems wildly inconsistent with the understandings and expectations in all three countries of how legitimate political and judicial determinations should be made. There is a repeated and emphatic protest of unfair surprise advanced by critics of Chapter 11 - many, if not most, state/provincial and local public officials in the three NAFTA Parties claim to have been unaware of the establishment of an external mechanism that can impose monetary liability for legislative and judicial decision-making. The implication made here is that had Chapter 11 been better known and understood, it would never have been implemented. It is a sucker-punch, a hidden rider, the unnoticed fine print. Now in place, the potential of Chapter 11 to restrict lawmaking prerogatives chafes legislators throughout North America. Chapter 11, as part of NAFTA, is layered on top of the domestic legal regimes of the three NAFTA Parties. As such, questions of its legitimacy are perhaps best viewed from the specific legal traditions - and legal expectations - native to each Party. Thus, to answer whether Chapter 11 is legitimate, one can usefully draw on the structures, constitutional understandings and functional notions of legitimacy found within each NAFTA Party. To the extent Chapter 11 goes beyond the expected (even if this is exactly the intended point of its construction), legitimacy is tested. This essay presents a catalogue of defects, surprises, shortcomings and deliberate design associated with Chapter 11 - all of which have prompted attacks on its legitimacy.

Holism: some reasons for buyer's remorse

Journal Article Holism: some reasons for buyer's remorse Get access Jonathan Cohen Jonathan Cohen Rutgers University New Brunswick,NJ 08901, USAjoncohen@ruccs.rutgers.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 63–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/59.2.63 Published: 01 April 1999