unit-of-analysis

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The original Fresh Start Effect authors' 2021 workplace-savings field experiment deploys the effect through an employer but keeps its mechanism and unit of analysis on the individual employee

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · fresh-start-effect, temporal-landmark, organizational-behavior, retirement-savings, unit-of-analysis
The 2025 'fresh start mindset' workplace study treats the mindset as an individual-differences trait of the employee, not a team- or firm-level construct

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-25 · fresh-start-effect, fresh-start-mindset, temporal-landmark, organizational-behavior, workplace
The 2024 Journal of Business Ethics fresh-start study extends the effect to a new behavioral domain (consumer environmental donation) but keeps the unit of analysis on the individual consumer

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · fresh-start-effect, fresh-start-mindset, temporal-landmark, consumer-behavior, marketing
Every located peer-reviewed extension of the Fresh Start Effect since 2021 keeps the individual as the psychological unit; no work treats a collective or organization itself as undergoing the dissociation-from-a-past-self mechanism

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-25 · fresh-start-effect, temporal-landmark, organizational-behavior, collective-cognition, cross-domain-analogy