The Journal of Consumer Affairs articles from June 2001

The Journal of Consumer Affairs archives from June 2001

Characteristics of Consumer-Preferred Labeling Policies: Experimental Evidence from Price and Environmental Disclosure for Deregulated Electricity Services.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... This study gauges how different information disclosure policies impact consumer understanding, performance, and satisfaction during the choice of a deregulated electricity supplier, and it explores how the market share of each firm responds to...

Consumer Perceptions of Privacy and Security Risks for Online Shopping.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Government and industry organizations have declared information privacy and security to be major obstacles in the development of consumer-related e-commerce. Risk perceptions regarding Internet privacy and security have been identified as...

Do Consumers Expect Companies to be Socially Responsible? The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Buying Behavior.
June 22, 2001... HARRIS, KATHERINE E. Companies are facing increasing pressure to both maintain profitability and behave in socially responsible ways, yet researchers have provided little information on how corporate social responsibility impacts...

German Consumer Decision-Making Styles.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... The lack of previous relevant consumer research in Germany, together with the need to test the generalizability of consumer decision-making styles in different countries and with non-student samples, prompted an investigation of German...

Utility of No Sweat Labels for Apparel Consumers: Profiling Label Users and Predicting Their Purchases.(profile of consumers who choose to buy clothing not produced in sweatshops)
June 22, 2001... This study empirically analyzed whether consumers making apparel purchases would use a label guaranteeing certain working conditions were present during garment production. While a potential market segment for the No Sweat label was identified,...

Willingness to Pay for Information: An Analyst's Guide.(a consumer's willingness to pay for a particular attribute of a good or service)
June 22, 2001... This paper defines, illustrates, and critiques the different ways in which researchers have contemplated and estimated a consumer's willingness to pay for a particular attribute of a good or service. In particular, the authors are interested in...

Are Two Incomes Needed to Prosper Today? Evidence from the 1960s to the 1990s.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Consumer Expenditure Survey data from 1960 to 1996 are used to examine trends in real consumption, real after-tax income, market work time, and real after-tax wages for single-earner and dual-earner households. Over the entire time period, most...

The Effects of Credit Attitude and Socioeconomic Factors on Credit Card and Installment Debt.
June 22, 2001... Most previous research on credit use has examined the effect of socioeconomic and attitude variables without considering the possible correlation among these factors. Also, the studies have not considered whether there is a difference between...

Does Vanity Describe Other Cultures? A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Vanity Scale.
June 22, 2001... Vanity is a psychological construct that describes a person's excessive concern with physical appearance or achievement. A scale, recently developed to measure this construct, has been psychometrically validated using data from U.S....

Moderating Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Group Facilitation.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Greenbaum, Thomas, L. 2000. Moderating Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Group Facilitation, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 261 pp., $72.95 ($32.75 paper). Thomas Greenbaum has written a comprehensive guide for those who...

Personal Financial Planning, U.S. ed.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Personal Financial Planning is geared toward people who are in a program that leads to becoming a financial planner as part of a finance department. The material is presented on a basic level except that the text incorporates a lot of the...

The Analysis and Measurement of Human Motivations in Marketing.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Maddock, Richard C. 2000. Motigraphics: The Analysis and Measurement of Human Motivations in Marketing, Westport, CT: Quobum Books, 304 pp., $69.50. Motigraphics is a word coined by the author, who is a clinical and marketing psychologist,...

Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Partner, Simon. 1999. Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 304 pp., $55.00 ($19.95 paperback). Assembled in Japan makes readers think about where they...