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Real-life consumer psychology – with a touch of technology
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Leona Ungerer
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"As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems ..." 
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"Among the 20 most-populous countries, the highest level of obesity among children and young adults was in the U.S., at nearly 13% ..."
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"A report from the City think-tank the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation describes the problem of financial exclusion to be 'intractable' ..."
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"When advertisers enter emerging markets the impact of their actions extends far beyond the promotion of a product or service ..."
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"Why do so many poor people eat junk food, fail to budget properly, show no ambition? Linda Tirado knew exactly why… because she was one of them ..."
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"A community of anonymous high schoolers is raiding malls across the country and blogging about it. Who are they? ..."
Leona Ungerer's insight:
The dark side of consumer psychology ...
Sarah Swiat's curator insight,
December 13, 2015 2:27 PM
While a lot of teenagers have shoplifted at some point or another, these online communities are again controversial because they actually promote shoplifting. This brings up an interesting conversation of who is really being harmed here? Corporations? The teenagers themselves as they expose themselves to potentially becoming more criminal, going after bigger steals, and risking getting caught? I don't know if this is a millennial problem (every article blames something on being millennial), but I would feel concern that the teenagers could potentially ruin promising lives over stealing, especially those over 18. Maybe having sympathy with people who willingly engage in criminal activity is wrong, but it's important to note that as the middle class of America is shrinking, those living in poverty increase and that may have a profound effect on teens learning how to shoplift. Additionally, social media facilitates these desires. If you go to a relatively low-income school, you may not see many kids with expensive goods, but with social media you see many people putting out an "idealized" life with expensive clothes and accessories. This may encourage people to steal in order to fit in, and find communities that accept shoplifting as a hobby.
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"We investigate the hidden crisis in the emerging countries: obesity ..."
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"A Mitchells Plain entrepreneur is over the moon after the app he helped created, to help unemployed youth to find jobs, recorded more than 100 000 users ..."
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"The Rich Kids of South Africa are the latest spoiled youngsters to flaunt their wealth online. The feed features their snaps of super-cars, five star hotels, shopping sprees and stacks of cash ..."
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"How did a charitable one-stop-shop become indispensable for thousands of poor people in rich Switzerland? ..."
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"Hilal Elver, the UN's special representative on the right to food, warns poor people are being forced to choose between economic viability and nutrition, violating the right to adequate food ..."
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"In many rural areas, poor people are suffering from malnutrition, which takes the form of stunting and obesity. To change this, their food environments must change ..."
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"Fireworks aren’t the hip and cool way to celebrate New Year’s Eve anymore—at least, not for the kids in Brussels. Nope. Rather than shooting explosives up, 2016 is the year of throwing cars down the stairs ..."
Leona Ungerer's insight:
Antisocial behaviour? Relevant for investigation in transformative consumer research?
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"With one can of cool drink containing six teaspoons of sugar – your recommended sugar intake for the day – there is a need to reduce the number of sugar-sweetened beverages South Africans consume ..."
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