In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to help solve a broad array of societal problems. This ...tendency is particularly clear in the field of food consumption, owing to the fact that food is both materially and symbolically central for consumers in everyday life as well as for large scale institutionalized dynamics. In order to shed light on the challenges facing food consumption, this volume takes an innovative theoretical approach, presenting four empirical Danish case studies which are compared with other analyses drawn from the wider international context. Consumption Challenged will appeal not only to sociologists of consumption, risk and the environment, but also to policy makers and researchers in the fields of geography, communication, media, governance and social psychology.
•One manufacturer in a supply chain can perform remanufacturing at the component level.•Consumer education enlarges the proportion of consumers who are willing to pay for the remanufactured ...product.•The optimal remanufactured product quantity generally increases in the presence of consumer education.•Our analysis identifies a consumer education paradox.•Consumer education could be detrimental to all stakeholders because of the paradox.
Different stakeholders are educating consumers about the benefits of remanufacturing. By increasing the number of consumers who are willing to purchase remanufactured products, consumer education has been expected to facilitate the advancement of the remanufacturing sector. We formally validate the condition under which consumer education is indeed beneficial from a social planner's perspective. We develop a game-theoretical model to examine the implications of consumer education upon a closed-loop supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one supplier. The manufacturer can perform remanufacturing at the component level. The direct effect of consumer education is that more consumers are willing to pay for the remanufactured product. Although the optimal remanufactured product quantity, in general, increases in the presence of consumer education, surprisingly, our analysis identifies a consumer education paradox, that is, as more consumers are willing to pay for the remanufactured product, the manufacturer switches the choice from remanufacturing to no remanufacturing. Moreover, consumer education could be detrimental to the supply chain, consumers, and the environment because of the paradox. Fortunately, temperate consumer education might be all-around desirable if and only if ex-ante few consumers are willing to purchase remanufactured products; that is, from the social planner's perspective, temperate consumer education should be conducted to foster the remanufacturing sector in its infancy.
El objetivo de esta investigación fue analizar la credibilidad e intención de compra por parte de los consumidores hacia la publicidad encubierta y descubierta mediante un líder de opinión. Para ...medir las dos variables se creó un influencer (MILA.ec) y un producto ficticios (VITAL FREE). La credibilidad se evaluó mediante la percepción de los consumidores hacia la cuenta del influencer cuando tenía 21.200 versus 2.100 seguidores. La intención de compra se midió a través de la exposición de VITAL FREE por MILA.ec de forma encubierta y descubierta. Los resultados mostraron que la cuenta con mayor número de seguidores era considerada más sincera para el género femenino y tenía mayor influencia sobre el estilo de vida para el grupo de personas de 16 y 25 años.
This article extends the literature on consumers' responses to green claims and their intentions to buy green products. We used an experimental approach based on three complementary studies. The ...first compares the effects of two claims regarding different levels of a company's environmental commitment. The second examines whether consumers can recognize exaggerated claims. The third analyzes consumers' perceptions of a company's environmental commitment and intentions to buy the advertised product when an institutional methodology is used to substantiate the message. Surveys were administered online in January 2020 to samples of the Italian population aged 18 to 75. The results suggest that consumers positively perceive the commitment that lies behind all the conditions tested, strongly influencing intentions to buy. However, consumers have either little or no understanding of differences among green claims and are also easily deceived by exaggerated claims (such as "zero impact"). Using multigroup structural equation modeling (SEM), we highlight the important role of education. Consumers with a higher level of education are more receptive to claims that imply a higher commitment and appreciate the presence of an institutional methodology as a credibility signal. However, even highly educated consumers are likely to be deceived by exaggerated claims.
Abstract
Introduction
The use of hypnotics has been associated with increased risk of falls, cognitive impairment, and loss in quality of life in older adults. Discontinuation or dose reduction of ...benzodiazepines occurs more frequently in patients who receive direct-to-consumer education about the risks and benefits of hypnotics. At our medical center, a direct-to-consumer education quality improvement program targeting older adults on hypnotics has been ongoing. We present results from a quality improvement project that assesses rates of hypnotic discontinuation in veterans attending insomnia clinic among those considered for the direct-to consumer mailings.
Methods
Patients who had at least one visit in the insomnia clinic at a VA medical center between January 2015 and October 2017 and who had been flagged as a candidate for the ongoing direct-to-consumer program for hypnotics (i.e., age ≥ 65 years with 60 day supply or greater of benzodiazepines z-drugs also considered in fiscal year 2016 and no schizophrenia, spinal cord injury, seizure disorder, or palliative care) were considered for the analysis. Hypnotic use was assessed at a single time point in October 2017. We used a two-sample test of proportions to compare sedative hypnotic medication use based upon VA pharmacy data for patients who received and who did not receive the mailing.
Results
A total of 24 patients were eligible to receive the direct-to-consumer mailing, and 12 patients were mailed the information on hypnotics. A larger proportion of patients who received the mailing are no longer on benzodiazepines or nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic medications compared to patients who did not receive the mailing (58% versus 8.3%, p=.01).
Conclusion
Our results are consistent with previous findings that direct-to-patient education tools can reduce the use of hypnotics. To improve the quality of patient care, more older veterans in our insomnia clinic who are using hypnotics should receive the direct-to-consumer mailing.
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Consumer skepticism of corporate environmental activities is on the rise. Yet research on this timely, intriguing, and important topic is scarce for both academics and practitioners. Building on ...attribution theory, we develop and test a theoretically anchored model that explains the sources and consequences of green skepticism. The study findings reveal that consumers' perceptions of industry norms, corporate social responsibility, and corporate history are important factors that explain why consumers assign different motives to corporate environmental actions. In addition, the results show that while intrinsic motives exert a strong negative effect on green skepticism, extrinsic motives have no discernible effect. Furthermore, the findings indicate that green skepticism prompts consumers to seek more information about the products, sparks negative word of mouth to friends and acquaintances, and forestalls purchase intentions. The study offers several implications for corporate and public policy makers and presents fruitful research directions.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate roles of financial literacy, financial behavior, and financial capability as mediating factors between financial education and financial ...satisfaction.
Design/methodology/approach
Data are from the 2012 National Financial Capability Study, a large national data set with detailed information on financial satisfaction, education, literacy, behavior, capability, and related variables. Mediation analyses are used to answer research questions.
Findings
Financial education may affect financial satisfaction, a subjective measure of financial well-being, through financial literacy, financial behavior, and financial capability variables. Results show that subjective financial literacy, desirable financial behavior and a financial capability index (a sum of Z-scores of objective financial literacy, subjective financial literacy, desirable financial behavior, and perceived financial capability) are strong mediators between financial education and financial satisfaction.
Research limitations/implications
The study has used cross sectional data that can only document associations between financial education and satisfaction and the mediators between them. Future research could use relevant longitudinal data to verify multiple benefits of financial education.
Practical implications
The findings have implications for financial service professionals to take advantages of multiple benefits of financial education in content acquisition, confidence in knowledge and ability, and action taking when they communicate with their clients.
Social implications
Policy makers on consumer financial education may use the information to advocate and promote effective education programs to improve consumer financial well-being.
Originality/value
This study is the first of this kind to examine the association between financial education and financial satisfaction and several financial capability variables as mediating factors.
Many people perceive climate change as psychologically distant—a set of uncertain events that might occur far in the future, impacting distant places and affecting people dissimilar to themselves. In ...this study, we employed construal level theory to investigate whether a climate change communication intervention could increase public engagement by reducing the psychological distance of climate change. Australian residents (N = 333) were randomly assigned to one of two treatment conditions: one framed to increase psychological distance to climate change (distal frame), and the other framed to reduce psychological distance (proximal frame). Participants then completed measures of psychological distance of climate change impacts, climate change concern, and intentions to engage in mitigation behavior. Principal components analysis indicated that psychological distance to climate change was best conceptualized as a multidimensional construct consisting of four components: geographic, temporal, social, and uncertainty. Path analysis revealed the effect of the treatment frame on climate change concern and intentions was fully mediated by psychological distance dimensions related to uncertainty and social distance. Our results suggest that climate communications framed to reduce psychological distance represent a promising strategy for increasing public engagement with climate change.
This lecture considers the case for consumer financial regulation in an environment where many households lack the knowledge to manage their financial affairs effectively. The lecture argues that ...financial ignorance is pervasive and unsurprising given the complexity of modern financial products, and that it contributes meaningfully to the evolution of wealth inequality. The lecture uses a stylized model to discuss the welfare economics of paternalistic intervention in financial markets, and discusses several specific examples including asset allocation in retirement savings, fees for unsecured short-term borrowing, and reverse mortgages.
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