Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

By A. Hama. 2011

91 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Marketing

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5f7cd701e68fa43c59ca033a7fd3eb7c293bbb46

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In Gender Studies

1. C. Ferguson
2. Vladas Griskevicius
3. Rob M. A. Nelissen
4. M. van Vugt
5. Marijn H. C. Meijers

In Marketing

1. C. Ferguson
2. Vladas Griskevicius
3. Rob M. A. Nelissen
4. P. W. Schultz
5. M. van Vugt
6. Benjamin M. Winegard
7. Bo M. Winegard
8. Marijn H. C. Meijers

Citations in the corpus

• Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction (2011, background): “Second, it creates a clear “villain,” one that has understandably dubious standing among many intellectuals (Chomsky & Herman, 1988; Miller, 2009).”
• Social benefits of luxury brands as costly signals of wealth and status (2011, background): “Various stable personality characteristics , such as conscientiousness, intelligence, ambition and other traits that underlie the ability to generate wealth, may be reflected in people's purchases (for a detailed analysis on the personality traits association with consumption , see Miller, 2009).”
• Saving Power to Conserve Your Reputation? The Effectiveness of Private versus Public Information (2012, unknown): “…consumers to obtain a number of non-market goods such as trust (Barclay, 2004), friends, allies, romantic partners (Griskevicius et al., 2007; Miller, 2009) and leadership 6 Petersen et al. (2007) induced dramatic savings of 30 percent in dormitory energy competition (with real-time feedback…”
• Naturally Green: Harnessing Stone Age Psychological Biases to Foster Environmental Behavior (2014, background): “Opportunities: Improving the Relative Status of Green Behaviors Evolutionary theorists regard conspicuous consumption as a costly signal of someone’s status, much like a peacock’s tail (Griskevicius et al., 2007; Bird & Smith, 2005; Iredale & van Vugt, 2012; Miller, 2009; Sundie et al., 2011).”