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Quoted: “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact,” said Justin Sydnor, a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and co-author of the report.

Quoted: This, FYI, is called “companionizing”. Ie, that yoga mat is a “companionized gift”. “The fact that a gift is shared with the giver makes it a better gift in the eyes of the receiver,” says study co-author Evan Polman, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin School of Business. “They like a companionized gift more, and they even feel closer to the giver.”

Noted: UW Law School Professor Keith Findley interviewed.

Hart Posen was interviewed about the FoxConn deal on the July 27 WTMJ morning show. Interview appears at the 38:33 mark.

Quoted: “The hope would have been that by targeting this, you could especially capture some of the people who early on fall off and get them to keep going for longer,” said Justin Sydnor, one of the report’s authors and a risk-management and insurance professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “These incentive programs did increase slightly how often people went, but only by about one visit, and then it really has no lasting impact.”

Noted: The study, recently published in the “Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin” at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, found that gift recipients ended up happier if they knew their gift-givers bought themselves the same thing. They study’s authors, both marketing professors, Evan Polman of the University of Wisconwin and Sam Maglio of the University of Toronto — Scarborough coined this phenomenon, “companionizing.”

Noted: Paul Jadin, President of the Madison Region Economic Partnership, and UW-Madison School of Business Professor Hart Posen talked about the impact a new plant with up to 13,000 jobs could have on the state’s economy.

Noted: Co-authors of the paper were Mark Stehr, assistant director of the School of Economics and an associate professor at Drexel University; Heather Royer, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California at Santa Barbara; and Justin Sydnor, an associate professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Barry Gerhart, a University of Wisconsin professor of management and human resources, said he thinks employers of low-skilled workers could have more trouble finding labor if Foxconn creates the promised thousands of new jobs. “They’ll either have to reach a little deeper in the applicant pool, raise wages and benefits, or automate,” Gerhart said.

Also quoted: Hart Posen, an associate professor of management and human resources in the UW School of Business, said the distribution of lower- and higher-paying jobs within Foxconn is extremely vague. But he doesn’t expect this plant to look like the company’s other ones that have great numbers of hand-assemblers. This one will more likely be highly automated.

Quoted: That ecosystem would be ideal, but it is far from guaranteed, said Hart Posen, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, on a recent episode of political talk show “Capital City Sunday.” The state needs to keep working to fully take advantage of Foxconn, he said.

Quoted: “Up until very recently, surprisingly few people were looking at this,” says Heather Kirkorian, an assistant professor of human development in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “In the last year or so, we’re actually seeing some research into apps and touchscreens. It’s just starting to come out.”

President Trump turned up the heat saying Congress should not leave for August recess until a new health care plan is passed. A possible Senate vote could happen early next week. We look at what the different scenarios could mean for insurance companies and Wisconsinites with Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor in risk management and insurance.

Quoted: “It’s a potentially pretty sensible way to go forward,” said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “There are good economics behind that.”

Quoted: “The search costs are very high and the rules may be quite restrictive when it comes to determining what constitutes an identical product at a competing store,” says Noah Lim, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.

Quoted: People typically don’t decide on their own to hunt. Rather, said Thomas Heberlein, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied hunting for decades, they’re most likely to take up a gun or bow if they meet three criteria: They’re male, they grew up in a rural area and their father hunted.

Quoted: That could make coverage unaffordable for many people with medical conditions, said Donna Friedsam, health policy programs director at UW-Madison’s Population Health Institute. “Insurers could be offering a much thinner set of benefits for less cost and price the more comprehensive benefits at a much higher cost,” Friedsam said.