The Perceived Value of Small Coins
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 125 (5), 571-575
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1985.9712030
Abstract
This study was concerned with the picking up of small coins as an unobtrusive measure of their perceived worth. Five sets of the four least valuable British coins were placed (“lost”) in a country town. Five pairs of observers noted the approximate age and sex of those 100 passersby who, having seen the coin, either did or did not pick it up. The results showed that the probability of a person picking up and keeping a “lost” coin increased linearly with its worth.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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