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ArticlePloS one2021

Increasing saving intentions through leaderboards: A gamification approach.

Yi Zhang, Femke van Horen, Marcel Zeelenberg

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yi ZhangDepartment of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3490-8792
Femke van HorenMarketing Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Marcel ZeelenbergMarketing Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Saving money is important but challenging. To spur financial saving intentions, we propose a new strategy-gamification. Specifically, we investigate the effectiveness of competitive leaderboards in increasing individuals' saving intentions. The results of two studies (total N = 618) show consistently that people's saving intentions are higher when presented with a leaderboard than when not. Further, as leaderboards elicit social comparison, we explore whether the height of the comparison standard and individuals' social comparison orientation moderate the effect. We find that the effect of leaderboards on saving intentions is more pronounced when people compare with a higher (as compared to a lower) standard (Study 1), but that the effect is not influenced by individuals' social comparison orientation (Study 2). Taken together, this research provides a new and simple-to-implement strategy to facilitate saving intentions in order to help improve people's financial well-being.

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Competitive BehaviorEconomics, BehavioralAdultConsumer BehaviorFemaleGames, ExperimentalHumansLeadershipMale

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PMID33852603
PMCPMC8046219

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