Psychology & Marketing

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology & Marketing is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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The impact of childhood environments on the sunk‐cost fallacy239
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I personally like it: Preference for minority endorsement in the early stage of the consumer decision journey150
Bayesian inference and consumer behavioral theory140
The tip of the tongue: Language‐based chronic social exclusion and tipping as a refocusing strategy140
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How Invoking Science in the Production Process of Geographical Indication Products Impacts Consumer's Perceived Authenticity and Product Valuation102
Merits matter: A new perspective on multifaceted pride and its effects on conspicuous consumption102
Cause‐related marketing of luxury brands: Nudging materialists to act prosocially100
Mega‐influencers and brand dynamics: Shaping attitudes toward leading and challenger brands through electronic word of mouth99
Against the Green Schema: How Gen‐AI Negatively Impacts Green Influencer Posts95
Is it risky to subscribe? Perceived control and subscription choice95
Adbusting: How advertising altered by activists affects brands92
The impact of financial scarcity on green consumption: Sequential mediating effects of anxiety and self‐efficacy82
Seeking variety on the move: The effect of residential mobility on variety seeking81
Gamification's role in fostering user engagement with healthy food‐based digital content80
Darker Logos Are Seen as For‐Profits and Lighter Logos as Nonprofits75
The impact of COVID‐19 on consumer evaluation of authentic advertising messages75
To touch or not to touch: Examining the role of choice set size73
How power increases preference for experiential purchases but not for material purchases71
Charitable Triad Theory: How donors, beneficiaries, and fundraisers influence charitable giving71
The impact of service robots on consumer response: Examining the roles of consumers' service expertise and technology expertise70
Robots should be seen and not heard…sometimes: Anthropomorphism and AI service robot interactions67
Consumer guilt proneness scale—Assessing individual differences in responses to transgressive consumption situations67
Virtual is so real! Consumers' evaluation of product packaging in virtual reality65
Anthropomorphic Sad Expressions Reduce Waste of “Single” Imperfect Food65
Investigating the effectiveness of virtual influencers in prosocial marketing65
The effect of anthropomorphized technology failure on the desire to connect with others64
Motivating recycling behavior—Which incentives work, and why?64
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Of happy larks and unhappy owls: Why morning versus evening types feel different levels of happiness from experiential versus material purchases60
The simultaneous sponsorship of rival teams: Beyond ingroup favoritism and outgroup animosity59
Temporary or permanent social media post? The impact of product type57
Bragging About Valuable Resources? The Dual Effect of Companies’ AI and Human Self‐Promotion56
More innovative but less socially responsible: The influence of using metaphors in marketing communications on product perception, choice, and adoption intention56
Mitigating the negative effects of service failure through customer identification56
Embracing Hedonism While Being Young: The Effects of Compulsive Buying, Compulsive Hoarding, and Spendthriftness56
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A systematic review on political ideology and persuasion54
Is this really me? Investigating brand personality self‐congruity on consumer behavior in video‐based social media52
The self on display: The impact of self‐objectification on luxury consumption52
Words matter: How privacy concerns and conspiracy theories spread on twitter50
Effects of the severity of collective threats on people's donation intention49
Empathy at the heart of customer experience: A holistic framework for understanding and enhancing consumer empathy through the lens of customer experience48
Algorithm fashion designer? ascribed mind and perceived design expertise of AI versus human48
Fear of missing out in the digital age: The role of social media satisfaction and advertising engagement47
The influence of companies' moral associations on the product consumption experience: The role of moral disgust46
How brand gender affects consumer preference for sweet food: The role of the association between gender and taste46
Marketing analytics: The bridge between customer psychology and marketing decision‐making46
I, chatbot! the impact of anthropomorphism and gaze direction on willingness to disclose personal information and behavioral intentions44
The role of sensory marketing and brand experience in building emotional attachment and brand loyalty in luxury retail stores44
Mapping the jungle: A bibliometric analysis of research into construal level theory43
The effect of material and experiential consumption on goal pursuit43
Implicit Ethical Consumerism: Development and Cross‐Cultural Validation of a Novel Affect‐Misattribution Measure42
Prevalent elements of consumer wellbeing in wearable technology use: An interdisciplinary systematic review and future research agenda41
Framing the Future: How AI's Creation Versus Generation Visuals Affects Consumer Willingness to Pay38
NFT luxury brand marketing in the metaverse: Leveraging blockchain‐certified NFTs to drive consumer behavior37
This article is… Consumer reactions to unfinished teasers for digital content37
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The role of a smile in customer–employee interactions: Primitive emotional contagion and its boundary conditions36
Privacy concerns when using augmented reality face filters? Explaining why and when use avoidance occurs36
The more the better? The negative effect of disseminators' donations in online donation36
When doing good will not save us: Revisiting the buffering effect of CSR following service failures36
You designed that yourself for me? Vicarious pride in customized gift exchange35
Nutrition labeling, numerosity effects, and vigilance among diet‐sensitive individuals35
Understanding crowding perceptions and their impact on place experience: Insights from a mixed‐methods study34
Beyond humans: Consumer reluctance to adopt zoonotic artificial intelligence34
Key factors influencing knowledge acquisition through game‐based learning34
The role of social projection in consumers' commonness fallacy34
Reconceptualizing the desire‐intention relationship in the Model of Goal Directed Behavior34
Has the COVID‐19 pandemic made us more materialistic? The effect of COVID‐19 and lockdown restrictions on the endorsement of materialism33
Embodiment, immersion, and enjoyment in virtual reality marketing experiences33
Overcoming the blockchain technology credibility gap32
Typology and impact of follower responses to social media influencer “promotional crisis”32
They forgot me! The exclusionary effects among complaining consumers when others receive a response32
Sustaining the Shift: Mechanisms of Practice Continuation in Meat Analogue Consumption32
Comparing Who We Are to Who We Could Be: How Future Self‐Images Influence Consumer Choices31
Two days before Friday versus 2 days from today: How future (vs. present) anchors in deadlines increase goal achievement31
How Promoting Access‐Based Consumption Provokes Overconsumption31
Strike while the iron is hot: Temperature affects consumers' appetite for risk31
Smart speakers and customer experience in service contexts30
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: The Dark Side of Uncertain Price Promotions30
The colorful company: Effects of brand logo colorfulness on consumer judgments29
Examining consumers' continuous usage of multichannel retailers' mobile applications29
Beyond the Shores of Reality: The Effect of Virtual Influencers on Luxury Perception and Its Downstream Consequence28
Conceptualizing sustainable consumption priming: A scoping review28
The pain of payment: A review and research agenda28
COVID‐19 vaccines and anti‐consumption: Understanding anti‐vaxxers hesitancy28
What goes around comes around: The effect of belief in karma on charitable donation behavior27
Branding with music: How can music contour and tonality enhance perceived brand innovativeness and brand evaluations?27
Effects of plan specificity and eveningness–morningness orientation on health goal pursuit26
How a blurry background in product presentation influences product size perception26
“Alexa, lock my front door”: An empirical study on factors affecting consumer's satisfaction with VCA‐controlled security devices26
Overcoming the Challenge of “Green Enough”: Exploring the Dark Side of Incremental Green Options26
The impact of socioeconomic status on preferences for sustainable luxury brands26
Set that record straight! Cardinal line orientations in music album artwork boost market performance and music consumption26
Authenticity Perceptions of Informational and Transformational Advertising: Decoding the Role of Construal Level Mindset26
Managing Pharmaceutical Promotion Mix in the Rise of Social Media26
Hearing what you pay improves transaction satisfaction? Unveiling the dual process influence of auditory feedback25
Brand narratives: Content and consequences among heritage brands25
Designing the digitalized guest experience: A comprehensive framework and research agenda25
Into the virtual worlds: conceptualizing the consumer‐avatar journey in virtual environments25
Image‐Left, Text‐Right: The Horizontal Sequence Effect of Images and Text on Consumer Responses to in‐Feed News25
Revisiting (dis)fluency: Metacognitive difficulty as a novelty cue that evokes feeling‐of‐interest25
Compulsion and reactance: Why do some green consumers fail to follow through with planned environmental behaviors?25
Why do consumers subvert brands? investigating the influence of subjective well‐being on brand avoidance25
Stop and smell the roses: How and when busyness impacts consumers' preference for minimalist advertisements24
Paying less as a signal of competence24
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My money—My problem: How fear‐of‐missing‐out appeals can hinder sustainable investment decisions24
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The influence of deviant advertisements on customer responses: The role of cultural tightness in emerging and developed economies24
Developing a Scale to Measure Need‐to‐Tell Personality Trait to Predict Consumers' Willingness to Provide Online Reviews23
How Second Screens Shape Consumer Experiences: The Role of Social Connection on Repeat Viewing23
Dialectical thinking as a driver of charitable giving23
The length of brand names influences the expectation of healthiness in foods and preference for healthy foods23
Erroneous consumer evaluations in the marketplace: How consumer evaluations are biased by raw performance scores23
The impact of visual perspectives in advertisements on access‐based products22
State boredom increases consumers' gift‐giving intentions in entertainment live‐streaming: A moderated dual‐mediation model22
Human Vs Machine: How Does Production Mode Influence Consumers' Perception of Price Unfairness?22
How loneliness affects consumers' reluctance to let go of used possessions22
The role of demand‐based scarcity appeals in promoting cultured meat21
Lonely human and dominant robot: Similarity versus complementary attraction21
The conceptualization of enablers and constraints of in‐store buying as part of the affordances flow funnel process through scan and go apps21
From ugly to attractive: Leveraging anthropomorphism to increase demand for irregular‐appearing produce21
Fostering trust and overcoming psychological resistance towards cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets21
How and when Narcissism and faith in humanity drive sustainable consumption20
The bittersweet of consumer–human brand relationships in the social media context20
Using large language models to generate silicon samples in consumer and marketing research: Challenges, opportunities, and guidelines20
Psychology of space tourism marketing, technology, and sustainable development: From a literature review to an integrative framework20
Can augmented reality satisfy consumers' need for touch?20
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Leveling the Playing Field… in Private: The Interplay of Malicious Envy and Anonymity in Online Revenge19
More the merrier!! Understanding the effect of available content choices over willingness to pay for over‐the‐top subscriptions19
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To be precise (imprecise) in utilitarian (hedonic) contexts: Examining the influence of numerical precision on consumer reactions to artificial intelligence‐based recommendations19
Is Darker More Effective? The Effect of Package Color Lightness on Consumer Judgment of Product Efficacy19
Friendship stings: Jealousy behind a close friend's extraordinary experiences19
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Unpacking the privacy paradox of consumers: A psychological perspective19
The regulatory fit effect on consumer preferences for price discounts and bonus packs18
Branding beyond the gender binary18
I want to remember: Preference for visual intensity in sentimental purchases18
Activation or Rigidity: The Dual‐Channel Mechanism of Responsibility on Consumer Citizenship Behavior Beneficial to Community Members18
Identification as a Sword in the War for Talent: Understanding Organizational Identification Through a Prospective Employee Lens18
Living with restrictions: The duration of restrictions influences construal levels18
Men engage in self‐deceptive enhancement, whereas women engage in impression management18
Brand placements in video games: How local in‐game experiences influence brand attitudes18
An integrative review of the decoy effect on choice behavior18
Revisiting power messaging in service failures: Pitfalls and proposed solutions17
First come, first served versus the draw: Perceived fairness in the new product purchase competition17
Deciphering consumer commitment: Exploring the dual influence of self‐brand and self‐group relationships17
Self‐Comparing With Virtual Influencers: Effects on Followers' Wellbeing17
Understanding the impact of recipient identification and discount structure on social coupon sharing: The role of altruism and market mavenism17
How scarcity and thinking styles boost referral effectiveness17
AI in marketing, consumer research and psychology: A systematic literature review and research agenda16
Rating with the senses: How sensory encounters are reflected on online review ratings?16
Digital technologies and privacy: State of the art and research directions16
Customers' political ideology and Self‐Service Technologies: Do political leanings predict usage of Self‐Service Technologies?16
A story to sell: The influence of storytelling on consumers' purchasing behavior16
The Dark Side of Social Media Influencers: A Research Agenda for Analysing Deceptive Practices and Regulatory Challenges16
How to strategically choose or combine augmented and virtual reality for improved online experiential retailing16
Fluency and the perceived ethicality of corporate social (ir)responsibility15
I will say “No” to that cookie: How imagined future self‐regulation drives current self‐regulation15
It is a match! The effect of regulatory fit on new products recommendations15
Asking your phone or a frontline employee? The influence of in‐store information source on choice overload, responsibility, and confidence among young consumers15
“A Contribution Shared Is a Contribution Halved”: The Influence of Tie Strength‐Based Disclosure Strategy on Potential Donors' Donation Amounts15
The effects of pseudo‐relevant 100% claims15
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The association between consumers' chronic concerns about infectious disease and anthropomorphism14
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Gag Gifting: The Joke and the Poke14
Experiences and happiness: The role of gender14
Understanding Social Comparison Dynamics on Social Media: A Qualitative Examination of Individual and Platform Characteristics14
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Just Walk Out Stores—The Future of Shopping? Examining Configurations of Reasons for and Against Consumer Adoption14
Research online and purchase offline: The disruptive impact of consumers' online information on offline sales interaction14
Behavioral Drivers in Circular Product Purchases: The Divide Between Corporate Buyers and Final Consumers14
Avatars' Phygital Social Presence in the Metaverse: An Engaged Theory Perspective14
Increasing donation intentions toward endangered species: An empirical study on the mediating role of psychological and technological elements of VR14
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When reality backfires: Product evaluation context and the effectiveness of augmented reality in e‐commerce14
Can Brand Activism Benefit Luxury Brands?14
The psychology of frustration: Appraisals, outcomes, and service recovery14
The semiotics of emojis in advertising: An integrated quantitative and qualitative examination of emotional versus functional ad dynamics14
Color darkness and hierarchy perceptions: How consumers associate darker colors with higher hierarchy13
“My life is a mess, I deserve a brownie:” Justifying indulgence by overstating the severity of life problems13
Meme marketing: How can marketers drive better engagement using viral memes?13
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Impact of Anonymity on Consumers' Online Reviews13
Extra Coupons and Unexpected Loss: The Effect of Unstackable Coupons on Consumer Purchases and Satisfaction13
Consumer‐brand identification and happiness in experiential consumption13
The power of flattery: Enhancing prosocial behavior through virtual influencers13
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Advancing Antecedents of Brand Personality: A Meta‐Analytical Review and Moderator Analysis13
When Food Scanner Apps Outperform Front‐of‐Pack Nutrition Labels: A Conditional Process Model to Foster Healthier Food Choices in Times of Growing Distrust13
Does Inconsistency Between Influencer‐Generated and User‐Generated Content Hurt Brands? The Role of Perceived Content Credibility13
Metaphysical deterrents to providers’ participation in the sharing economy: The role of peer‐to‐peer contagion13
Consumer cynicism in service failures13
Resolving the complexity in Gen Z's envy occurrence: A cross‐cultural perspective13
Aversion to Human Intervention: Why Food in Complex Packaging Design Is Perceived as Less Healthy13
Value through diversity: A systematic literature review to understand diversity and inclusion in consumer research13
Relating the dark side of new‐age technologies and customer technostress12
The impact of fear on the effectiveness of customer empowerment‐messages in online retailing12
What is driving consumer resistance to crypto‐payment? A multianalytical investigation12
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Correction to “Hedonic objects and utilitarian experiences: The overriding influence of hedonism in driving consumer happiness”12
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A meta‐analysis on the psychological and behavioral consequences of nostalgia: The moderating roles of nostalgia activators, culture, and individual characteristics12
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More than just your name: Public donations drive inferences of egoistic and altruistic motives12
Beyond the Big Five: The effect of machiavellian, narcissistic, and psychopathic personality traits on stakeholder engagement12
Fake smiles. Customer reactions to employees’ display inauthenticity and choice restrictions11
Online group buying behavior: A study of experiential versus material purchases11
Power from words: The influence of brand activism message framing on consumer purchase intention11
Pricey therefore good? Price affects expectations, but not quality perceptions and liking11
An examination of frontline employee–customer incidental similarities in service failure and recovery contexts11
Consumer hate and boycott communications of socially irresponsible fashion brands: Applying complexity theory in psychology and marketing research11
It is different than what I saw online: Negative effects of webrooming on purchase intentions11
Social media engagement and real‐time marketing: Using net‐effects and set‐theoretic approaches to understand audience and content‐related effects11
Key Factors that Influence Consumer Preferences for Natural‐Hyped Products11
How to make vertical farming more attractive: Effects of vegetable growing conditions on consumer assessment11
Being unconventional: The impact of unconventional packaging messages on impulsive purchases11
Perceived unfairness increases desire for unique products: The role of need for social status11
How do username and avatar affect people's engagement with native advertising on social media: From the self‐disclosure perspective11
How aesthetic features convey the concept of brand premiumness10
When less is more: Understanding consumers' responses to minimalist appeals10
Social dynamics of luxury customization: The unique impact of name personalization10
Fifty years of deceptive marketing research: A systematic review and future research agenda10
From easy to known: How fluent brand processing fosters self‐brand connection10
Motivations of playing digital games: A review and research agenda10
Extracting informational cues between initial coin offering projects and the public10
Perceived air pollution reduces consumers' self‐disclosure: The role of tense arousal10
Counterfeits can benefit original products when people are caught using counterfeits10
Should companies hope instead? The role of verbal cues in consumers' evaluation of cause‐related marketing (CRM)10
The heart, brain, and body of marketing: Complementary roles of neurophysiological measures in tracking emotions, memory, and ad effectiveness10
Exploring gift gaps: A meta‐analysis of giver–recipient asymmetries10
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Corporate social responsibility in the luxury sector: The role of moral foundations10
The role of immersive spaces on the customer experience: An exploration of fashion metaverses9
Augmented reality advertising via a mobile app9
Artificial intelligence in marketing: A meta‐analytic review9
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