Cash or card? Consumers pay strategically to forget guilty purchases, study shows

"I think a lot of consumers—particularly those who diligently track their card expenses—recognize that they use cash so they don't have to think about certain purchases again," Christopher Bechler, assistant professor of marketing in Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, said in a PHYS.ORG article.

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