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This article draws on current and classical psychological theories of consumer behavior to review current findings in the psychology and economics literature on the subjective value of money, using an information processing framework. Consumers subjectively value both prices and money. That is, consumers value an identical economic value as a price or as a sum of money differently depending on their individual characteristics, price presentation characteristics, monetary form characteristics, and the consumer context due to subjectivity in their: Perception (biases in assessing the subjective value of money and prices); Inferences (whether consumers use price information to make other judgments); affect (the feelings and emotions associated with spending and saving); memory (errors and biases in recall of money and prices); and information integration (the manner in which consumers integrate costs and benefits to make decisions of whether, when, how much, and what to spend on).

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