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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Loneliness And Moral Judgment Does Loneliness Make Moral Judgment More Permissible?

Despite the fact that social connections are central facets of daily social life, and loneliness influences most people’s quality of life, relatively little empirical attention has been devoted to Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Jinfeng (Jenny) Jiao, Jing (Alice) Wang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Altruistic Behavior, Egoistic Choice

Altruism can be loosely defined as “a willingness to act in the consideration of the interests of other persons, without the need of ulterior motives” (Nagel 1970, p79). The opposite of altruism Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Adelle Xue Yang, Christopher K. Hsee, Oleg Urminsky
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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What Makes A Luxury Brand: The Effect Of Competence And Warmth Cues On Luxury Perception

Luxury, a concept once used to delineate class-oriented exclusivity, appears to becoming increasingly popular and prevalent among today’s mass market consumers. Not only has the size of the global Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Miao Hu, Derek D. Rucker
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Effects Of Color On Food Temperature Perceptions

Red and blue denote warm and cold temperatures on water faucets, air-conditioning systems, weather maps, and thermometers, among other items. The co-occurrence of red/blue hues and warm/ cold Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Courtney Szocs, Dipayan Biswas
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Consumers’ Global Versus Local Brand Choice In Foreign Context

Although there is a consensus in the literature that industries are globalizing and that consumer attitude and behaviors worldwide are homogenizing (Cleveland, Laroche, and Papadopoulos 2009, Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Katharina Zeugner-Rot, Claudiu V. Dimofte
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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