BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: Cash is Still “King”

TREATING YOURSELF WITH CASH

By Staff Reporters

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Folks are more likely to reach for dollar bills than credit cards when making a guilty pleasure purchase, according to new Stanford research.

MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/06/22/behavioral-finance-for-doctors/

In more than 118,000 real transactions at the university bookstore, buyers tended to slap their plastic on the counter for school supplies but pay with cash for “harder-to-justify” items like a stuffed plush mascot. And when asked how they’d pay for a hypothetical Reiki session, participants leaned toward credit card when the treatment was described as doctor-recommended but toward cash when they were told it was just an impulse purchase.

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