Researchers from University of Hawaii and University of Florida published a new paper in the
Journal of Marketing that argues that a biological account of human behavior, especially undesirable behavior, will benefit human welfare. This biological perspective can complement traditional psychological, anthropological, and economic perspectives on consumption, particularly with respect to the vital topic of self-control.
The study, forthcoming in the
Journal of Marketing, is titled Consumer Self-Control and the Biological Sciences: Implications for Marketing Stakeholders and is authored by Yanmei Zheng and Joe Alba.
Society s understanding of human ills is constantly evolving. Many ill-advised consumer behaviors are conventionally viewed through a non-biological lens, with the underlying biological causation of such behaviors often neglected. This research considers two biological domains that have produced a tsunami of findings in very recent years: neuroscience and genetics.
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