Ethical Brand Journal

Welcome to the first iteration of the eb™ Journal. At this stage, it contains over one thousand academic papers and other research that have been produced over several decades by over two thousand authors from around the world. The vast majority are selected because they use terms such as ethical brand and ethical branding to characterise settings and outcomes in many different techno-industrial consumption contexts that concern the social, economic and environmental well-being of humanity.

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The Effect Of Color Vs . Black-and-White On Information Processing

The effects of using color in various forms of marketing communications (e.g., television and magazine advertising, package design) have received much attention from marketing researchers. One area Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Hyojin Lee, Xiaoyan Deng, H. Rao Unnava
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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When A Sequence Of Decisions Leads To Unfavorable Outcome: The Conflicting Roles Of Perceived

Consumers make numerous decisions every day. These decisions may form a causal sequence in which earlier decisions influence subsequent ones. For example, a decision of which restaurant to go to is a Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Maggie Y. Chu, Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Lisa C. Wan
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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A Fluency Account Of How Price Operates As A Cue To Psychological Distance

Building on construal level theory (CLT; Trope and Liberman, 2003), we propose that the price of a product, like time (e.g., Liberman and Trope, 1998), spatial distance (e.g., Fujita, et al. 2006), Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Thomas Allard, Dale Griffin
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Fear Not, For You Can Help! The Effect Of Fear Of Failure And Self-Construal On Charitable Giving

Extant literature offers mixed findings as to how people respond to having an aspect of the self threatened, reporting both social contact seeking (Maner et al. 2007), and avoiding behavior (Murray Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Zeynep Gürhan-Canli, Lale Okyay-Ata
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Happiness From Giving: When Consumers Misforecast Their Affective Responses To Prosocial Behavior

Consumer giving has steadily declined over the last few years (Giving USA 2010). When consumers do give, approximately 50% are motivated to only give once and not give again (Nonprofit Times 2003). Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Stefanie Robinson, Caglar Irmak, William O. Bearden
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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