While a significant proportion of French people (38%) reports having recovered objects thrown away or deposited on the sidewalk, the objective of this article is to provide a better understanding of how certain practices of gleaning bulky objects (freely decided rather than dictated by...

This article aims to confront Foucault’s (2001) concept of heterotopia (2001) – the physical location of an utopia – with a "new, "informal and non-institutionalized retail space for gleaning second hand items : the sidewalk during the time of bulky item collection. A qualitative survey...

L'objectif de cet article est de montrer que la contribution d'une expérience de consommation alimentaire à la construction identitaire est conditionnée par l'appropriation du produit. Un éclairage théorique original à partir de la philosophie révèle quatre modes d'appropriation qui,...

Aging well is now a major societal issue. Applied to marketing, the relevance of Desired Aging Well criterion is tested in this paper to segment the 50-65 years old market on a sample representative of French people. A typology based on consumer behavior regarding financial investments, leisure...

Recent research has highlighted the importance of trust in building and maintaining business relationships. This research addresses these findings and utilizes Macneil’s norm theory to develop a model illu strating the mediating role of trust in buyer-seller relationships and compare it to the...

Death is the unescapable event that most of individuals want to hide motivated by a fundamental will to stay alive. Because it can be source of mystery, fascination and anxiety, this topic has been of specific interest in psychology thanks to the Terror Management Theory (TMT). This theory...

This article focuses on the practices of resistance to intrusive advertising on the Internet. The analysis of 19 interviews reveals the existence of different resistance profiles when exposed to interstitial: functional resistance, ideological resistance, conative avoidance and non-resistance....

This paper explores the persuasive effects of different commercials for an analgesic on members of different age groups. Commercial content was manipulated to be either of (a) factual or (b) evaluative. The impact of these two contents was assessed on members of two different age groups: young...

Financial literature suggests that for the Elderly, investing on a longer duration increases return and lowers risk. Consequently, we examine possible effects of their relation to the future on their investments’ preferences and savings’ allocation. Then, we test different timerelated...