
Ellen K. NyhusUniversity of Agder | UIA · School of Business and Law
Ellen K. Nyhus
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Introduction
Ellen K. Nyhus currently works at the Department of Management at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway. She is interested in economic psychology, financial behaviour, financial literacy, and financial socialisation.
Additional affiliations
May 1999 - December 2017
January 2013 - present
Agder Research
Position
- Senior Researcher
June 1999 - present
Education
March 1992 - October 2002
August 1986 - January 1999
Publications
Publications (33)
In this study, we investigate whether personality traits contribute towards a better understanding of the reasons for the gender wage gap. We explore whether two of the personality factors put forward by Bowles et al. (2001) as likely to be incentive enhancing in the employer–employee relationship can explain the difference in wages for women and m...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of personality dimensions on wage settings. The study was inspired by the model proposed by Bowles, Gintis, and Osborne [American Economic Review 91 (2001) 155], which shows how psychological characteristics may be rewarded or punished in the labour market due to a so-called incentive-enhanc...
This paper presents analyses of the correlates of debt in a three-wave panel study of saving and other financial behaviour. The data used came from a representative sample of Dutch households. The results confirm the findings of previous studies on nonrepresentative samples and demonstrate that although economic variables alone predict debt quite w...
This chapter presents a systematic literature review on consumer adoption
of cryptocurrencies as a function of three key constructs: consumer gender, personality traits, and overconfidence aspects. After having introduced the topic of cryptocurrencies, we structure our review across these three fundamental building blocks by briefly describing the...
In countries where Christmas is celebrated, people are under pressure in the pre-Christmas period to spend on gift giving and socializing. In two surveys we investigated the role of the meaning of Christmas and other psychological factors in predicting propensity to spend and to borrow at Christmas (UK, N = 190; Norway, N = 234). Factor analysis id...
The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations among attitudes toward sugar relationships and relevant variables (e.g., sex, sociosexuality, gender inequality, parasitic...
Cryptocurrencies have ballooned into a billion-dollar business. To inform regulations aimed at protecting consumers vulnerable to suboptimal financial decisions, we investigate crypto investment intentions as a function of consumer gender, financial overconfidence (greater subjective versus objective financial knowledge), and the Big Five personali...
https://uia.brage.unit.no/uia-xmlui/handle/11250/3076629
Purpose
This paper aims to explore how different levels of involvement in the prevacation phase affect vacationers’ subsequent satisfaction, word of mouth (WOM) recommendations and loyal behavior with regard to the planning/booking process.
Design/methodology/approach
Data from a field study ( N = 5,158) in a travel planning context are used to in...
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...
The OECD/INFE international surveys of adult financial literacy (OECD/INFE 2016, 2020) show gender differences in financial literacy in developed countries in Europe. In this study, we examine whether these differences can be explained by gender differences in parental economic socialization using the Dutch 2018 DHS household survey. We investigate...
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...
The purpose of this study is to test the notion that the use of digital payment methods, such as paying with a mobile phone, increases the risk of financial vulnerability. Research from the USA indicates such a relationship, and we study whether this finding can be generalized to other countries. Motivated by recent changes in EU legislation relate...
Recognizing that gender differences in financial literacy and financial self‐efficacy are sources of power imbalance and gender inequality, we seek to expand this field of research. Through a semi‐systematic review, we describe and synthesize the latest research regarding the role of self‐efficacy in relation to financial literacy and gender. We gi...
Several studies suggest that consumers match stimuli across sensory modalities, with angular (vs. round) typefaces typically associated with sourness (vs. sweetness). Drawing on findings from the field of crossmodal correspondences, this study (N = 220) examined potential typeface effects in naturalistic settings and found that exposure to angular...
Mange tenker nok det er for tidlig å ha økonomiopplæring i barnehagen, men faktisk tar små barn mange økonomiske beslutninger. Økonomi handler om å fordele knappe ressurser, så både fordeling av tid, leker eller mat kan sees som en økonomisk beslutning. Barns aktiviteter ligner også på ulike sider av voksnes økonomiske virkelighet. Barn gjør oppgav...
This chapter discusses the implications of both individual and aggregate saving behaviour for individual welfare. It introduces economic models of saving, particularly their underlying psychological foundation. The chapter describes the economic and psychological factors that may influence individual saving behaviour. Psychologists also tend to con...
Sammendrag
Formålet med denne studien er å øke kunnskapen om hvordan bedrifter som har lykkes i globale markeder, arbeider med strategi og innovasjon. Ved å lære av disse bedriftene og overføre deres kunnskap til bedriftene som sliter med
svekket konkurransekraft, ønsker vi å bidra til en sterkere og mer omstillingsdyktig industriell base i regione...
Dutch data were used to investigate the associations between psychological variables and saving behaviour.
Dette er siste forfatterversjon etter fagfellevurdering, før publisering i Praktisk økonomi og finans, 29(2013)4: 251-273 Tidsskriftets forlag, Universitetsforlaget, tillater at siste forfatterversjon legges i åpent publiseringsarkiv ved den institusjon forfatteren tilhører.
Little is known about the economic socialization of children and adolescents and the role of parents in this process. The authors' purpose was to explore the role of parenting in the intergenerational transfer of economic orientation and economic behavior. More specifically, they studied the link between four parenting dimensions (parental warmth-r...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of different personality dimensions on the individual’s labour market choices. In addition, personality types were assessed for differential wage settings. The study is inspired by Bowles et al (2001), who suggested that individual characteristics might be rewarded or punished in the labour...
Psychologists have been observing and interpreting economic behaviour for at least fifty years, and the last decade, in particular, has seen an escalated interest in the interface between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference resource dedicated to improving our understanding of...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the notion that the behaviour of parents (particularly that related to inter-temporal choice) influences the economic behaviour of their children. Exploiting Dutch panel data, we compare the future orientation, conscientiousness and saving of children aged 16–21 with those of their parents in order to exp...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which personality influences saving and borrowing behaviour. We do this by exploiting a Dutch data set, which provides both detailed information on households' assets and debt as well as answers to two different personality inventories (the 16PA and the FFPI). Our findings are in line with p...
In this study, we explore the role of parenting in the intergenerational transfer of future orientation and economic behaviour using data collected from 600 14-15 year olds in Norway. We focus on conscientiousness, future orientation and present orientation and find these dispositions associated with spending preferences and ability to resist spend...