Consumers With Math Anxiety, a Financially Vulnerable Group? Unpacking the Negative Relation Between Math Anxiety and Performance on a Price Comparison Task

Consumers With Math Anxiety, a Financially Vulnerable Group? Unpacking the Negative Relation Between Math Anxiety and Performance on a Price Comparison Task

Comparison shopping is good financial practice, but situations involving numbers and computations are challenging for consumers with math anxiety. We asked North Americans (N = 256) to select the better deal between two products differing in volume and price. As predicted, math anxiety was negativel...

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Main Authors: Andie Storozuk, Fraulein Retanal, Erin A. Maloney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Insitute for Psychology 2023-03-01
Series:Journal of Numerical Cognition
Subjects:
math anxiety
math competency
price comparison
cognitive reflection
need for cognition
Online Access:https://jnc.psychopen.eu/index.php/jnc/article/view/10001

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