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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How Mortality Salience Shapes Consumers’ Responses To Brands

Consumers are frequently exposed to death-related information (e.g., news about terrorist attacks, natural disasters), which may make their mortality salient (MS; Greenberg et al. 1990). Yet, the Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Polina Landgraf, Antonios Stamatogiannakis, Haiyang Yang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Taking A Leaf Out Of My Review: The Asymmetrical Link Between Linguistic Similarity And Attitude

Firms and research have recognized the importance of investigating what makes WOM persuasive (e.g., Homburg, Ehm, and Artz 2015; Rosario et al. 2016). In particular, several studies have suggested Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Ann Kronrod, Yakov Bart
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Cueing Backwards: Attention Processes In Multi-Attribute Choices

Marketers are naturally interested in biasing purchase decision in their favor. This can either be achieved bottom-up, biasing the choice between different alternatives, or top-down, influencing the Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb, Agnes Scholz, Ursa Bernardic, Benjamin Scheibehenne
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Narrative Transportation And Cognitive Responses: The Other Side Of The Story

Narrative transportation is the sensation of being physically relocated (“transported”) into a story (Green and Brock 2000). Narrative transportation is posited to robustly and positively affect Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Rebecca J. Krause, Derek D. Rucker
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Why Is 1 Out Of 20 Riskier Than 5%? Effect Of Representing Unlikely Events As Frequency Versus

Consider two individuals contemplating the purchase of a new laptop computer. Both are interested in the same specific brand and model. While one individual comes across a product review stating that Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Nevena T. Koukova, Joydeep Srivastava
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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