Decidedly I Decision Tips for Business Owners

Ep.149 I Deciding as a Tightwad or Spendthrift: Where’s the Balance? with Dr. Scott Rick


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Do you tend to be more of a spendthrift or more of a

tightwad? How does it impact the way your family handles spending? Can spendthrifts and tightwads successfully share accounts?


Dr. Scott Rick, PhD in Behavioral Decision Research, shares the causes and consequences of spending decisions and finding harmony in your habits.

 

KEY TOPICS

Setting spending contingencies ahead of time to avoid impulsive decisions.

Why calling kids “spoiled rotten” is harmful.

Joint versus separate accounts in a marriage.

When and where kids may benefit from an “allowance.”

 

CHAPTERS

00:00 Mission of Decidedly

01:21 Tightwad and Spendthrift Stories

5:09 Introduction to Dr. Scott Rick

12:17 Identifying Yourself as a Tightwad or Spendthrift

27:25 Spending Tendencies in Relationships

32:44 Avoiding Scorekeeping

40:56 Shaping Financial Behavior of Your Kids

49:40 Budgeting and Friction

52:31 Creating a Healthy Financial Environment

52:25 Decision-Making Tip

53:24 Key Takeaways

54:54 Producer Closing

 

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Thank you to Shelby Peterson of Transcend Media for editing

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CONNECT WITH DR. SCOTT RICK

Website: https://scottrick.com/ 

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Tightwads-Spendthrifts-Navigating-Minefield-Relationships/dp/1250280079/ 

Instagram: @likelyshopping 

 

Dr. Scott Rick is a marketing professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He holds a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow.   

Rick’s research focuses on understanding the emotional causes and consequences of consumer financial decision-making, with a particular interest in the behavior of tightwads and spendthrifts. The overarching goal of his work is to understand when and why consumers behave differently than they should behave (defined by an economically rational benchmark, a happiness-maximizing benchmark, or by how people think they should behave), and to develop marketing and policy interventions to improve consumers’ decision making and well-being. 

Rick has published in marketing, psychology, management, neuroscience, and economics journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Annual Review of Psychology, and Neuron.  

He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Financial Planning Review, and he serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and the Journal of Marketing Research. His research has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and Harvard Business Review.

He blogs for Psychology Today. At Ross, he has won awards for both research and teaching. 

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