According to Roney (2003), when exposed to potential mates (young women), men show greater conformity to female mate preferences. This study conceptually replicates and extends this finding to show that women also respond to female physical attractiveness. When exposed to attractive women...

While complaining behaviour has widely been studied in marketing, few studies exclusively focus on non-complaining behaviour. The present communication studies a specific type of consumers: those who do not complain when dissatisfied. Three studies were conducted on 380 students and non-students...

In this research, we study social desirability and demand artifacts in light of the increasing use of on-line studies. Our experiment shows that this data collection medium does not always reduce these biases. First, when an attractive interviewer appears on the cover page of an on-line study,...

Few studies have been conducted on special treatment, and they have always considered it as a rewarding tool aimed at maintaining loyalty. However, special treatment is more and more widely used by firms during their first interaction with customers, as a recruiting tool. Relying on the concepts...

This article investigates the impact of two data collection modes (online surveys and paper-and-pencil surveys) and the perceived attractiveness of the experimenter on two types of response biases: social desirability and demand artifacts. Its results highlight the combined effect of the data...

The global teen market has significant spending power and an important impact on the world economy. However, much remains unknown about the social motivations of teenage consumers and cross-national cultural differences in teenage shopping. This research studies teenage shopping motivations in...

Opinion leaders propel the diffusion of innovation and exert a significant influence on the marketplace. This influence is especially pronounced during adolescence, a period marked by increasing reliance on peers and the emergence of a tension between two countervailing needs: assimilation and...