In today's highly competitive market, companies use celebrities in advertisements. Due to the development in the field of mass communications, as one of the oldest branding tools, celebrity endorsement will keep its effect. Turkish Airlines has confirmed with its own example that the celebrity...

The idea that consumers are rational decision makers, who carefully consider options when making a decision about a certain phenomenon, will soon phase out! Believe it or not. In a bid to better understand the consumer, a myriad of economists still waste their precious time on “not-so-deep”...

The now-popular “cash diet” hails that paying in cash is more painful psychologically than via dematerialized money (e.g., credit cards), which in turn helps citizens save more. Paradoxically, we show cash can sometimes backfire (compared to dematerialized money) and cause consumers to save...

We examine how and why consumers engage in retributional acts directed towards brands that are perceived as harmful. Consumers are shown to lie, cheat, and steal as they attribute lower moral worth to harmful brands and this effect is shown to persist in the absence of any attributable brand...

The Internet is growing at a rate of almost 50-100% per year in India. From being a medium for exchange of information and communication between the scientific research workers, it has opened a vast vista of entertainment and information (edutainment) for millions of people on the Internet...

Women Consumers are playing an important role in online shopping. The increasing use of internet by the women consumers in India provides an emerging prospect for online retailers. If online retailers know the factors affecting women consumers' buying behavior, then they can further develop...

Social networking is currently the most popular online activity among consumers worldwide. Today in business context, Social media is achieving increasing importance as a channel for consumer's online participation and engagement. Brands are developing its presence in social networking sites to...

Although it is still controversial, neuromarketing remains the most promising area of marketing. Basically, the goal of neuromarketing is to study how human brain is affected by marketing stimuli. In neuromarketing, brain activity can be monitored and measured using state-of-the-art neuroimaging...