Explorations and implications of aberrant consumer behavior

✍ Scribed by Michael C. Budden; Thomas F. Griffin III

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 144 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0742-6046
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6793(199612)13:8<739::aid-mar1>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

The consequences of aberrant consumer behavior are important enough to warrant this special issue of Psychology & Marketing. Forms of aberrant and dysfunctional consumer behavior include, but are not limited to, shoplifting, credit misuse and abuse, compulsive buying, purchase of illegal products, illegal market transactions, misuse of products, fraudulent return of merchandise, fraudulent requests for warranty service, purchase of counterfeit products, violation of license agreements, gambling, and other addictive behaviors. Aberrant consumer behavior, with a cost to society in the billions of dollars annually, deserves closer inspection.