Consumption of green products is growing rapidly in the United States. We assessed the extent to which this consumption is motivated by a desire to promote societal-level change in corporate practices that affect the climate, and posit a social–cognitive model in which people’s global warming beliefs and consumer activism beliefs predict their green purchasing goals, behavior, and opinion leade...

This study offers insight into whether trust-building and purchase intention can be affected by incorporating a motivational factor such as self-efficacy into online consumer trust-building. Previous e-trust study has illuminated individual online consumer trust in e-commerce as the outcome of a subjective judgment mechanism. In an effort to expand understanding of trust-building, self-efficacy...

Packaging is the brand concept, product features, a comprehensive reflection of consumer psychology, it has a direct impact on consumer purchases, consumer products and packaging is to establish a powerful means of affinity. Visual communication in the study of visual processes in people's visual perception of design information flow process, it is built on people's mental and physical habits b...

The time-series patterns of price and quantity shown in Figure 1 of the main paper are consistent with consumer stockpiling of canned tuna and canned soup: when product prices fall for a short time, quantity spikes to a level much higher than the baseline level that is observed at regular prices. In this section I present some additional evidence that patterns of consumer purchases are consiste...

This paper uses household data from the 1988 to 2000 U.S. Consumer Expenditure Surveys to examine the determinants of new vehicle purchases, where vehicles are disaggregated into four categories: cars, trucks, vans, and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs). In particular, it analyzes the effect on vehicle choice of gas prices at time of vehicle purchase relative to that of gas prices in previous quart...

The paper develops model checking techniques to ex amine NetBill and Digicash We show how model checking can verify atomicity properties by analyzing simpli ed versions of these protocols that retain cru cial security constraints For our analysis we used the FDR model checker Atomicity Properties Correctness is a prime concern for electronic com merce protocols How can we show that a given pro ...

Consumers are increasingly adopting and using mobile payments for person to payments, in-store purchases, in-app purchases online commerce. Nevertheless, adoption of technological innovations like often require effort learning by the consumer. In this study objective was identify potential barriers a wider fulfilled innovation resistance literature as lens analyzing qualitative interview data w...