How Can You Give Better Gifts? (Replay)
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How many bottles of wine are regifted? What’s wrong with giving cash? And should Angela give her husband a subscription to the Sausage of the Month Club?

• SOURCES:

• Joel Waldfogel), professor of strategic management & entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota.

• RESOURCES:

• “How to Become a Truly Excellent Gift Giver),” by Eliza Brooke (*Vox, *2022).

• “How to Calculate a Holiday Tip for the Doorman),” by Ronda Kaysen (*The New York Times, *2022).

• “Least Favorite Gifts to Receive for Christmas in the United States in 2022, by Generation),” (Statista, 2022).

• “(Not) Giving the Same Old Song and Dance: Givers’ Misguided Concerns About Thoughtfulness and Boringness Keep Them From Repeating Gifts),” by Julian Givi (*Journal of Business Research, *2020).

• “Does Anyone Really Buy the Giant Car Bows You See in Every Commercial?)” by Aditi Shrikant (*Vox, *2018).

• “It’s the Motive That Counts: Perceived Sacrifice Motives and Gratitude in Romantic Relationships),” by Mariko L. Visserman, Francesca Righetti, Emily A. Impett, Dacher Keltner, and Paul A. M. Van Lange (*Emotion, *2018).

• “Why Certain Gifts Are Great to Give but Not to Get: A Framework for Understanding Errors in Gift Giving),” by Jeff Galak, Julian Givi, and Elanor F. Williams (*Current Directions in Psychological Science, *2016).

• “The Girl Who Gets Gifts From Birds),” by Katy Sewall (*B.B.C. News, *2015).

• “The Disappointing Gift: Dispositional and Situational Moderators of Emotional Expressions),” by Renée M. Tobin and William G. Graziano (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011).

• Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays)*, *by Joel Waldfogel (2009).

• “The Deadweight Loss of Christmas),” by Joel Waldfogel (*The American Economic Review, *1993).

• United States Postal Service Employee Tipping and Gift-Receiving Policy).

• EXTRAS:

• “Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas),” by *Freakonomics Radio *(2012).