Consumer Psychology

Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.

"In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption,  "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."

Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.
 

In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.

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Angeline Close, author of Online Consumer Behavior, has been nominated for the Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Award for her research in the behavioral patterns of consumers.

We congratulate Dr. Close on this great honor, and wish her the best of luck.

For more information on the Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Awards Program, click here.