Companies’ efforts to manage their information practices to produce transparent privacy policies have yielded mixed results. Web retailers detail such practices in their online privacy policies, but most of the time this information remains invisible to consumers. This paper reports on research undertaken to determine whether a more prominent display of privacy information will cause consumers ...

The consumer demand is following multi-dimensional criteria for food product characteristics. These characteristics include the dimensions quality, safety and integrity of food products. Consumers’ expectations and information needs in these areas are changing quickly and force agri-food enterprises to collect and provide reliable information on demand for products they are offering. Today, new...

This paper investigates consumers’ use of Electronic Word-of-Mouth System (EWOMS) after negative consumptions. We conceptualize providing product information to a EWOMS as a possible means to revenge. Our empirical study shows that this conceptualization is valid. The unsatisfied consumers who viewed the EWOMS as a revenging tool also indicated heightened likelihood of providing information to ...

Three studies investigated the influence of mood states on the processing of positive and negative information regarding caffeine consumption and on the impact of this information on one's mood, attitudes, and intentions. The results were consistent with the predictions of the mood-as-a-resource hypothesis: First, the induction of positive mood in high (compared with low) caffeine consumers enh...

With the current phenomenon of aging populations in most parts of the world, there are corresponding increases in age-related conditions associated with impaired cognitive status, such as dementia and delirium. Cognitive status is a key component in carrying out activities of daily living such as walking and bathing, and departures from normal cognitive status may be indicators of acute (e.g., ...

BACKGROUND This study explored consumer perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and relationships with CAM and conventional medicine practitioners.A problem detection study (PDS) was used. The qualitative component to develop the questionnaire used a CAM consumer focus group to explore conventional and CAM paradigms in healthcare. 32 key issues, seven main themes, informed t...