[lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 13:03:44 PDT 2010


Do you have the quote of the actual paper? I could not find it in Psychological Science.

Wojtek

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
>
> [WS:] Quite frankly, I do not think that there is any correlation between
>> shopping habits and ethical behavior. There just too many variables that
>> affect both, anything from income to geographical location to broadly
>> defined culture, to everyday life interaction, to personal upbringing, and
>> to psychological disposition and mood changes.
>>
>> I understand that finding coincidental correlations among a wide variety
>> of
>> random socio-cultural traits and shopping behavior is the essence of
>> marketing "research" - but I do not think very highly of this kind of
>> analysis.
>>
>
> You might want to read the paper before passing judgment.
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