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ArticleRoyal Society open science2025

Revisiting mental accounting classic paradigms: Replication Registered Report of the problems reviewed in Thaler (1999).

Mengfei Li, Gilad Feldman

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Mengfei LiDepartment of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6460-555X
Gilad FeldmanDepartment of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2812-6599

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental accounting, the internal categorization system individuals adopt to manage their financial activities, may result in suboptimal decisions or decision-making not aligned with one's own goals. In a Registered Report with an online US sample recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk using CloudResearch, we conducted a replication of 17 classic problems reviewed in Thaler 1999

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behavioural economicsbiasjudgement and decision-makingmental accountingregistered reportreplication

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PMID40977913
PMCPMC12445221

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