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
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