How you spend affects how much you spend: Non-cash purchases found to be higher than cash buys

There is fresh evidence that people spend less when paying cash than using credit, cash-equivalent scrip or gift certificates. They also spend less when they have to estimate expenses in detail. These findings appear in the September issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, published by the American Psychological Association.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news139977942.html">How you spend affects how much you spend: Non-cash purchases found to be higher than cash buys</a></p> <p>There is fresh evidence that people spend less when paying cash than using credit, cash-equivalent scrip or gift certificates. They also spend less when they have to estimate expenses in detail. These findings appear in the September issue of the <I>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied</I>, published by the American Psychological Association.</p>