Current consumption patterns in the Global North are unsustainable across environmental, social, and economic dimensions. To promote more sustainable consumer behavior, emotional priming on social media has become an increasingly popular tool. In this paper, we mimic social media content to test...

Literature on consumers’ ethical decision making is rooted in a rationalist perspective that emphasizes the role of moral reasoning. However, the view of ethical consumption as a thorough rational and conscious process fails to capture important elements of human cognition, such as emotions...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effect of emotionally connotated photographic material on problem awareness regarding sustainability and sustainable behavioral intentions of mobile phones. In a prestudy (N ​= ​110), photographs related to the ecological and social...

It is estimated that millions of packaged and unused gift items are sent to landfills every month, generating enormous amounts of waste borne by the environment. Proposing social recycling through regifting unused gift items as a probable solution, the authors proposed an integration of the norm...