Luxury products are among the most commonly seized counterfeit items by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, and the annual confiscation rate continues to increase. Globally, the total costs associated with these counterfeits are estimated to be in the range of billions of dollars, and...

On the science of branding: an introduction / Barbara Loken, Rohini Ahluwalia, and Michael J. Houston -- Leveraging a brand through brand extension: a review of two decades of research / Barbara Loken, Christopher Joiner, and Michael J. Houston -- Brand alliances / Akshay Rao -- Traveling the...

Data were collected for eight sets of product- and brand-level categories to better understand the determinants of typicality and the relationship between typicality and attitude of reach category level. Measures of both feature similarity (family resemblance) and goal achievement (ideals,...

Can properties of emotions other than valence influence consumers' responses to emotional ads? We show that consumers' processing motivation moderates whether their attitudes are based on the valence of or the resource demands imposed by the emotion featured in an ad. When motivation is low,...