Nowadays, one can buy colorful cake lollipops, shower gels made of “magical leaves”, to enter a store selling human size LEGO just next to sex toys, and to sleep in hotels offering Batman’s Read More »
Consumers often encounter situations when important aspects of their identities are negatively evaluated and threatened. Imagine a sports fan who watches his beloved team lose to an objectively Read More »
Extant embodied cognition research suggests that individuals can reduce a perceived lack of interpersonal warmth by substituting physical warmth, and vice versa. We suggest that this behavior is Read More »
Academics and stand up comics alike have noted the sometimes extraordinary divergence of retrospective evaluations from an actual experience. Academics, for their part, have presented ample evidence Read More »
We illustrate the processes wherein a celebrity’s appropriation of fashion discourse transforms the celebrity brand from an 'ordinary' individual to an 'extraordinary' celebrity which rests on the Read More »