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Dissertation Proposal: An investigation of empathy and social problem solving among different bullying groups: A study of male prisoners.

Next, consumer spending may be influence by the “final sales” every store in the U.S. presents. At the end, one spent more than expected. Consumer spending may be a good thing for GDP but not for the individual. Many people need counseling on how to spend their money because on the long-term it may cause a decline on the economy.

Although specific research hypotheses are not given in the article, based on the information presented it is possible to construct the research hypotheses and corresponding null hypotheses with a fairly high degree of accuracy. The

The use of methodology is Primary data which includes Questionnaire. Apart with the Primary data collection, the paper is based on the information retrieved from the internet via journals, e-books and websites. The data has been presented with the use of bar diagrams and pie charts. Results and recommendations have been derived which are discussed further in this research paper.

Many believe daily purchases cannot conclude to happiness, however, these people are not contributing their money the correct way. Consumers assets should be based on intimate traits and characteristics meeting our psychological needs and wants. People who spent more money on purchases that lined up with their personality traits were happiest (Close). Cambridge University tested 625 people over the idea that investing well-earned money with personalities resulted in the happiness factor. Starting with a personality test along with each response linking back anonymously to the recent bank transactions over six months (Connington). The five

For the foreseeable future, it appears that the days of living off the land for survival are over. Society is now driven by money because with it people can buy just about anything and without it they likely won’t have the means to get by. A side effect of this is that now people are striving to make sure there is plenty of money available to them rather than a bounty of essential and more fulfilling needs. The quality of life in many countries has become high, but for the sake of conciseness America’s quality of life has become especially notable. For example, advertisements flood the highways and television with things that people can buy to make life “more comfortable.” This increase in quality of life over the last couple of centuries has made survival a near given and has set forth a time where having disposable income is common. How people use disposable income can say a lot about how they view happiness to be fulfilled. Most income earners today have some amount of disposable income but the ways in which it gets spent differs widely due to the overwhelming amount of possible ways to spend that the highway billboards and television present. Some spenders will use disposable income sparingly and with care by saving it to ensure future needs are met and to best benefit themselves and their friends or family’s happiness, whereas many will spend it frivolously and feverishly in an act to find happiness; but happiness is instead often found in the more wise use of careful

The research aims to answer the following questions, each of which will be broken down into more specific questions to focus the collection of data and its analysis.

First, the author’s claim that people are significantly happier when they spend their money on experiential things rather than materialistic things. Van Boven and Gilovich describe experiential purchases as “events or series of events that one experiences, whereas, material purchases are things that are in one’s possession and concrete” ( Dunn,Gilbert,Wilson 438). In an experiment where random American’s were asked to decide which of the two purchases made them happier, a majority of the sample group chose experiential things. Also, identical results emerged when another random sample group was asked to decide which of the two made them happier when mulling over their past experiential purchases and material purchases.Dunn, Gilbert, and Wilson explain that since humans adapt to things quickly (material things), delayed adaptation increases happiness (experiential things).

Behavioral economics studies cognitive, emotional and social factors effects on economic decisions made by an individuals and consequences returns, resource allocation and market prices. It assumes that human beings are rational in the decisions they make. Behavioral economics do not involve assumption. The difference comes in from the notion that the human behavior observation contradicts behavior of people to be perfectly rational. Therefore, the two starts from different points. Both behavioural economics and economics try to proscribe and describe patterns of human spending. The implication is that it does not only try to describe human behavior but tries to dictate human behavior.

John Hawksworth “Opinion: Economic Trends - Saved by the consumer?”, Accountancy, London, Mar 2002 (with minor editing)

Interest rate is considered as one of the main parameters to control the economic conditions of any country. Interest rate is the key variable for time value of money, which causes a greater shift in money markets and capital markets. This study is basically carried out for the capital market or stock market.

The objectives of this research are going to be achieved by; using already found data, facts and figures that have already been obtained by people who have previously explored this topic. However since the idea behind this was to explore something that is new and not far looked into, other methods will have to be used to help discover new theories and ideas.

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The purpose of this chapter is to present the data collected from both research methods, give analyses the data and discuss the result.