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Amar Cheema
Researcher at University of Virginia
Publications - 51
Citations - 6665
Amar Cheema is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Common value auction & Mental accounting. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 51 publications receiving 5867 citations. Previous affiliations of Amar Cheema include Washington University in St. Louis & University of Southern California.
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Data collection in a flat world: the strengths and weaknesses of mechanical turk samples
TL;DR: The authors compared Mechanical Turk participants with community and student samples on a set of personality dimensions and classic decision-making biases and found that MTurk participants are less extraverted and have lower self-esteem than other participants, presenting challenges for some research domains.
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Data Collection in a Flat World: Strengths and Weaknesses of Mechanical Turk Samples
TL;DR: MTurk offers a highly valuable opportunity for data collection, and it is recommended that researchers using MTurk include screening questions that gauge attention and language comprehension, avoid questions with factual answers, and consider how individual differences in financial and social domains may influence results.
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The Effect of Need for Uniqueness on Word of Mouth
Amar Cheema,Andrew M. Kaikati +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a psychosocial cost associated with positive word of mouth (WOM): positive WOM can decrease the uniqueness of one's possessions, which hurts high-uniqueness individuals.
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The Effect of Need for Uniqueness on Word of Mouth
Amar Cheema,Andrew M. Kaikati +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the psychosocial cost associated with positive word of mouth (WOM), which can decrease the uniqueness of possessions and thus harm high-uniqueness consumers.
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The Effect of Credit on Spending Decisions: The Role of the Credit Limit and Credibility
Dilip Soman,Amar Cheema +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that consumers are unable to correctly value their future incomes, and that they lack the cognitive capability to solve the intertemporal optimization problem required by the life-cycle hypothesis.