From: The Wall Street Journal
How Your Phone Can Keep You From Spending
April 17, 2017
The Wall Street Journal:
An app can help you order a pizza, find a parking spot—or plan your retirement.
In more than a dozen recent experiments, Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely used mobile apps and simple tenets of psychology to help people save more money, pay down more debt and devise and stick to budgets.
Overall, Dr. Ariely’s research at the university’s Common Cents Lab shows that people enrolled in the behavioral interventions spent less and saved more than those who weren’t.
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