Recent clinical research suggests that several self-report behavioral economic measures of relative reinforcing efficacy (RRE) may show utility as indices of substance abuse problem severity. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Alcohol Purchase Task (APT), a RRE measure that uses hypothetical choices regarding alcohol purchases at varying prices (de...

The extension of the waste input-output (WIO) model to analyze households’ sustainable consumption patterns is presented in this article. We estimate direct and indirect emission loads induced by household consumption by the WIO model. The WIO model is much more suitable for the analysis of sustainable consumption than the conventional input-output model because it can deal with the disposal st...

In recent decades, sports organizations have paid special attention to the importance of considering the purchase behavior of customers. Meanwhile, the variables that can have an impact on customers' purchase behavior have been considered. This study aimed to determine the causal relationship between relationship marketing and purchase behavior of spectators using structural equation modeling. ...

0950-3293/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2012.11.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +39 081 2537466. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. C (L. Cinquanta), [email protected] (C. Ievoli). The importance of extrinsic and intrinsic attributes of wine for purchase decisions is the object of a lively debate. As a matter of fact, in recent decades...

As a means for the power grid company to guide industrial users reduce consumption through economic compensation, incentive-based demand response management (IBDRM) plays an important role in process that purchase directly from plants (direct power-purchase short). Therefore, this paper studies impacts of IBDRM on company, plants, and perspective users' direct power-purchase, so as analyze whet...

Consumer purchasing decisions relating to foreign products are influenced by economic, psychological and sociological factors. This study attempts to relate such rarely studied variables as animosity and ethnocentrism to concepts taken from consumer behavior which are brand image and purchase intention. Consequently, this study attempts to provide insights into how brand image, consumer ethnoce...

This article analyses the influence of economic benefits, brand affection, cultural capital, and conspicuous consumption on attitude toward counterfeit luxury products. A survey was carried out in places where these products are sold cities Belo Horizonte Nova Serrana, state Minas Gerais, Brazil. The interviewees were divided into two groups (high low capital) data obtained analyzed using Struc...