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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Decisional Conflict Predicts Myopia

Despite the integral role conflict plays in the subjective experience of self-control decisions, most work investigating conflict does not measure it directly. In the present paper, we use Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Paul Edgar Stillman, Melissa Ferguson
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Is All That Glitters Gold? The Effect Of Product Surface Glossiness On Consumer Judgments

Glossiness describes how much the surface of an object reflects light in a specular (i.e. mirror-like) way (Nicodemus et al. 1977). Notwithstanding the importance of glossiness in product design, Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Jiaqi Song, Yuwei Jiang, Gerald J. Gorn
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Subjective Experience Of Goal Failure: How Choosing The Lesser Evil Eradicates The Negative

Imagine that you’re attending a morning meeting and are offered an assortment of pastries: muffins, donuts, and brownies. While deciding whether to indulge in one of these tempting options you Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Kamila Sobol
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Asymmetry Between Time And Money Compensation Effect When Feeling Scarcity: Time Helps The

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 »

Date: 2018
Author: Jane So , Nidhi Agrawal
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Effect Of Future Focus On Self-Control Is Moderated By Self-Efficacy

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 »

Date: 2018
Author: Rafay A. Siddiqui, Jane Park, Frank May
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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