Consumers' favorable attitude toward ethical brands, and the rise of ethical consumers, is a recent global trend. Nevertheless, prior studies have emerged that favoring ethical products does not Read More »
Consumers’ current socioeconomic status (SES) has been widely acknowledged as an important factor that affects various aspects of their behavior, such as aggression (Greitemeyer and Sagioglou Read More »
We examine two important aspects of scarcity. First, we identify a new scarcity effect on consumers’ advice-taking tendency. Second, we show whether the abundance of one resource alters the Read More »
For consumers, sometimes the future may be very salient, while other times it may not be (Shipp, Edwards and Lambert 2009). Future focus is critical to self-control, as one cannot self-regulate Read More »
For three decades, consumer research has paid a great deal of attention to the role of brands in fostering social formations such as subcultures, communities, and publics. Some of these formations Read More »