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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Selling losers and keeping winners: how (savings) goal dynamics predict a reversal of the disposition effect |
Author: | Aspara, J. Hoffmann, A. |
Citation: | Marketing Letters, 2015; 26(2):201-211 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
ISSN: | 0923-0645 1573-059X |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jaakko Aspara, Arvid O. I. Hoffmann |
Abstract: | A well-documented behavioral pattern in consumer financial decision making is the disposition effect, which refers to the tendency to sell winning investments too early while holding on to losing investments too long. This bias has negative wealth consequences, because typically, individuals' losing investments continue to underperform while their winning investments continue to outperform. Using a goal-systemic framework, the present research indicates that individuals' susceptibility to the disposition effect can be reversed by activating a superordinate (savings) goal. Experimental results indicate that three effective ways to activate a superordinate (savings) goal, and thereby reverse the disposition effect, are as follows: (1) subtly prime it with goal-related words, (2) prime it by making an overall portfolio loss salient, and (3) prime it by explicitly mentioning a goal with a clear-end state. |
Keywords: | Consumer financial decision making; disposition effect; goal systems theory; investment decisions; savings goals |
Rights: | © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11002-013-9275-9 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11002-013-9275-9 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Business School publications |
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