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 Dark Side Of Product Visualization: Negative Effects Of Imagery

Many websites allow consumers to upload their own pictures to the site, providing an appealing means for consumers to visualize product benefits. This is helpful in online shopping contexts and for Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Arun Lakshmanan, Lura Forcum, H. Shanker Krishnan
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Tens, Hundreds Or Thousands? How Nutritional Information Numerosity Nonconsciously Affects

Obesity is a growing problem in many areas around the globe. It is particularly an issue in the United States where nearly two-thirds of the population is overweight or obese (Flegal et al., 2012). Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Keith Wilcox, Sonja Prokopec
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Illusion Of Variety: Poor Readability Enhances Perceived Variety

Experiencing variety is central to our well-being (Morales et al. 2005; Rolls et al. 1981; Schwartz 2004). Given its central role, how accurate can we tell whether there is greater or smaller variety Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Zhongqiang (Tak) Huang, Jessica Y. Y. Kwong
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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What To Get And What To Give Up: Effectiveness Of Promotion Vs. Prevention Messages In Acquisition

In the current research, our main goal is to investigate the relative effectiveness of promotion- versus prevention-focused messages for different decision tasks and in the context of different type Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Tilottama G. Chowdhury, Camelia Micu, S. Ratneshwar, Eunjin Kim
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Role Of Visual Attention In Decision-Making: An Eye-Tracking Experiment

Bettman suggested as early as 1979 that attention may be one of the key factors that influence choice. More recently, Janiszewski et al. (2013) reported that repeated allocation of attention to a Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Milica Mormann, R. Blythe Towal, Christof Koch
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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