Money can’t buy love: Asymmetric beliefs about gift price and feelings of appreciation

By Francis J. Flynn, Gabrielle S. Adams. 2009

145 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3909ba957c0a407d4fae47e2ac05dc3aeba88086

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Safety Research

1. Francesca Gino
2. Nathan Novemsky
3. Yaacov Trope
4. Max H. Bazerman

In Social Psychology

1. Cheryl J. Wakslak
2. Nathan Novemsky
3. E. Baskin
4. Yaacov Trope
5. Francis J. Flynn
6. Francesca Gino
7. Kentaro Fujita
8. Nira Liberman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Cheryl J. Wakslak
2. Nathan Novemsky
3. E. Baskin
4. Francis J. Flynn
5. Francesca Gino
6. Yaacov Trope
7. Kentaro Fujita
8. Adam M. Grant

Citations in the corpus

• Why Feasibility Matters More to Gift Receivers than to Givers: A Construal-Level Approach to Gift Giving (2014, background): “Thus, givers should note that buying higher-priced gifts will not engender more appreciation from receivers (Flynn and Adams 2009).”
• Give them what they want: The benefits of explicitness in gift exchange (2011, background): “And anyone interested in strengthening a social bond by purchasing a gift for another person must acknowledge the intended recipient's preferences and desires (Flynn & Adams, 2009).”