Consumer Neoteny: An Evolutionary Perspective on Childlike Behavior in Consumer Society

This research explores childlike consumer behavior from an evolutionary perspective. More specifically, it uses the concept of neoteny to show that the retention of ancestors’ juvenile characteristics is related to specific behaviors. The results of factor analyses conducted on a UK sample (n = 499)...

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Autor principal: Alemany Oliver, Mathieu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10480988/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704916661825
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spelling pubmed-104809882023-09-07 Consumer Neoteny: An Evolutionary Perspective on Childlike Behavior in Consumer Society Alemany Oliver, Mathieu Evol Psychol Articles This research explores childlike consumer behavior from an evolutionary perspective. More specifically, it uses the concept of neoteny to show that the retention of ancestors’ juvenile characteristics is related to specific behaviors. The results of factor analyses conducted on a UK sample (n = 499) and a French sample (n = 292) 7 years later indicate four dimensions of childlike consumer behavior, namely, stimulus seeking, reality conflict, escapism, and control of aggression. SAGE Publications 2016-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10480988/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704916661825 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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