This article documents the development and validation of a multidimensional superstition scale (MSS). Superstition is conceptualized as a three dimension personality trait: belief in culturally shared superstitions, superstitious pessimism and magical thinking rituals. We carried out three...

Knowing and identifying superstitious consumers enable firms to propose products or services which are not opposite to the superstitious practices of consumers. An exploratory study; 10 interviews and 4 collects of data (N = 484) were conducted in order to both identify the dimensions of...

This article aims at understanding consumers’ morningness or eveningness orientation. A qualitative study (N=10) among consumers added with a quantitative study (N=130) aimed at developing a scale. These studies show that the tendency to be a morning/evening person influence constrained...

Superstitious beliefs influence a wide range of decisions and activities in the everyday life. Yet, superstition has received little attention in the consumer behaviour literature, which is surprising since superstitious behaviours are found in numerous related domains, such as sports (Schippers...

This article presents the development and the validation of a 6 item Consumer Tendency to Regret (CTR) measurement scale. CTR is conceptualized as a situational personality trait in Mowen's 3M hierarchical personality model, and is defined as the propensity to experience regret following a...