Never truly alone, we always have our purchases: Loneliness and sex as predictors of purchase attachment and future purchase intentions
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DOI: 10.1002/cb.1686
Abstract: The meaning of a purchase does not end at “buy.” Past purchases can become integral to consumers' self-definition and communication of their “self” to others. Just as consumers display differential attachment tendencies for material purchases,… read more here.
Keywords: purchase; purchase attachment; material experiential; sex ... See more keywords
What triggers envy on Social Network Sites? A comparison between shared experiential and material purchases
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.03.049
Abstract: Social network users often see their online friends post about experiential purchases (such as traveling experiences) and material purchases (such as newly purchased gadgets). Three studies (total N = 798) were conducted to investigate which type of… read more here.
Keywords: social network; material purchases; study; material ... See more keywords
The Material-Experiential Asymmetry in Discounting: When Experiential Purchases Lead to More Impatience
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DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucz017
Abstract: Consumers routinely make decisions about the timing of their consumption, making tradeoffs between consuming now or later. Most of the literature examining impatience considers monetary outcomes (i.e., delaying dollars), implicitly assuming that how the money… read more here.
Keywords: experiential asymmetry; experiential purchases; material experiential; impatience ... See more keywords
More Experience, Less Loneliness? Exploring the Effect of Experiential Purchases on the Alleviation of Loneliness
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.581183
Abstract: Over the past few decades, researchers have explored the effects of experiential purchases and material purchases on happiness and provided a range of evidence that consumers yield greater happiness from experiential purchases compared with material… read more here.
Keywords: effect experiential; research; loneliness; effect ... See more keywords
The Influence of Consumer Purchases on Purchase-Related Happiness: A Serial Mediation of Commitment and Selective Information Processing
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DOI: 10.3390/bs13050396
Abstract: In the literature on material and experiential purchases, it has consistently been demonstrated that the relationship between the consumer’s purchase type and purchase-related happiness favors experiential purchases. This research aims to extend the literature by… read more here.
Keywords: information; purchase related; related happiness; experiential purchases ... See more keywords