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.
Consumers are increasingly confronted with dynamically moving stimuli in commercials, video games and virtual reality. Although the effect of physical (near vs. far) and psychological (concrete vs. Read More »
Consumers often make consumption choices on the basis of estimates, rather than actual temporal or monetary costs. Frequently, marketers interchangeably use “less than” vs. “not more than” Read More »
Price is a key factor in consumer decision making (Adaval and Monroe, 2002; De Langhe et al., 2014). From a purely economic perspective, consumers should be willing to buy a product if the value that Read More »
We propose and support a salience theory of exposure effects which posits that repeated exposure influences evaluations by increasing salience, the relative quality of standing out in relation to Read More »
Consumers are quick to say that maintaining privacy in an increasingly digital world is more and more difficult (Pilot). Yet recent research (Mourey) suggests that consumers are more sensitive to Read More »