Michael I. Norton’s research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places

... Chin and Bruine de Bruin (2019) show that financial disclosure, including graphs with distributional information about the costs of credit cards, improves consumers' understanding of the cost of credit cards. Donnelly, Lamberton, Bush, Chance, and Norton (2024) allow people to repay their credit card debts by expenditure category, with each category shown in a graphical block. While these studies often draw on the idea that graphical representations might enhance comprehension or highlight critical information about credit card payments, they do not specifically test the effects of such graphical elements. ...

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Improving Financial Wellbeing, One Nudge at a Time

... Others may help to establish networks of various flexible and loose relationships, in the sense of the 'weak ties' that in sociology have been suggested as a central resource for people already 50 years ago (Granovetter, 1973). Weak ties widen the options for exchange, for further contacts, and for both providing and finding variable support when needed (Collins, Hagerty, Quoidbach, Norton, & Brooks, 2022;Moreton, Kelly, & Sandstrom, 2023). ...

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Public mental health - a challenge for local communities and research

... For example, Bone, Christensen, and Williams (2014) studied the stigmatization of racial and ethnic minorities and found that the self-concept of African American and Hispanic consumers is negatively impacted by financial services providers' poor treatment of minority customers compared to White customers. Other work addressing how consumers have been targeted shows that advertising in a stereotypical manner or using identity-relevant symbols that may be linked to negative mental associations results in negative evaluations from the targeted consumer (Kim et al. 2023;Rank-Christman and Henderson 2019). Crockett (2008) examined how marketers use and portray Blackness in advertising, identifying two strategies: making claims about the brand as a cultural resource or emphasizing differences or similarities to make claims about the viewer. ...

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Culture for Sale: Unpacking Consumer Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation

... Relevance in marketing academia can be defined as scholarly research addressing questions that are important for marketing managers, policy makers, marketing educators and students, marketing research scholars, and/or society and environment at large (Madan et al., 2023;Madhavaram, 2024;Reibstein et al., 2009;Varadarajan, 2003). Relevant research concentrates on antecedents that these stakeholders can influence or manipulate and/or on dependent variables denoting consequents that hold significance for these stakeholders. ...

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In pursuit of relevant and rigorous qualitative research in marketing academia

... Finally, higher individual income may be a resource buffering against the adverse effects of separation. Generally, relationship dissolution often comes with an income loss, especially so for women (Manting & Bouman, 2006), and decreases in income are associated with decreases in life satisfaction (Boyce et al., 2013;De Neve et al., 2015). Thus, the level of income may affect how individuals cope with a breakup. ...

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Men and Women Transitioning to Singlehood in Young Adulthood and Midlife

... Many local food schemes fall within the former category, with appeals to support local farmers and producers (Young, 2022). For beneficiaries outside of the exchange relationship, common types include charitable donations linked to purchases and cause awareness raising campaigns such as those for breast cancer (Donnelly et al., 2021;Singh and Dhir, 2019). ...

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Consumers' willingness to pay for an animal welfare food label

... Research finds that income inequality affects individuals' well-being and behaviors (Schneider, 2016), increasing concerns for fairness and equality (Oishi et al., 2011), and motivating strategies to restore equality in social institutions (Ordabayeva & Lisjak, 2022). Equalitydriven motivations influence both citizenship decisions, such as endorsing tax redistribution policies (Chow & Galak, 2012;Goya-Tocchetto & Payne, 2022), and consumption decisions, such as supporting businesses that are egalitarian oriented (Acar et al., 2021;Ordabayeva & Lisjak, 2022) or rejecting businesses that perpetuate inequality (Hagerty et al., 2022). These behaviors imply that consumer ideologies-the ideas and ideals that consumers hold regarding the marketplace (Schmitt et al., 2022)-underpin decisions to reduce income inequality. ...

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The egalitarian value of counterfeit goods: Purchasing counterfeit luxury goods to address income inequality

... Regardless, the essence of leisure resides in its subjective meaning, as was well demonstrated empirically by Tonietto et al. (2021). Their findings indicated that perceiving leisure as wasteful correlated with lower happiness and greater depression, anxiety, and stress. ...

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Leisure and meaning in life

... The relationship strength of these social connections is determined by the emotional intimacy and feelings of connectedness shared between individuals (Aron et al., 1992;Granovetter, 1973). Strong social connections typically involve relationships with family members, close friends, and significant others and are characterized by numerous interactions, shared experiences, and feelings of affection (Garcia-Rada et al., 2022;Krackhardt et al., 2003). Weak social connections, on the other hand, typically involve relationships with acquaintances and distant others that are less developed. ...

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Fighting Fiscal Awkwardness: How Relationship Strength Changes Individuals’ Communication Approach When Resolving Interpersonal Debt

... Instead, they engage in the practice of sharing emotional energy with others, encompassing the sharing of feelings of elation, enthusiasm, strength, or initiative (Collins, 2004;Lepisto, 2022). This process enables them to cultivate a sense of meaningfulness toward their work, which reflects the extent to which individuals perceive their job as meaningful, valuable, and worthwhile (Hackman & Oldham, 1976;Kim et al., 2021). In turn, this perception affects employees' behavioral reactions. ...

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How to trigger employee proactive behavior? Introducing the ritual perspective