How the Unconstructed Identity Relieves Consumers of Identity-Relevant Consumption
When a consumer’s identity is salient, research shows that they consume consistently with their self-concept. In this work, we explore how the use of unconstructed identities, or identities that do not contain a self-schema in the mind of the consumer, results in less consistent identity-relevant behavior.
Citation:
Tracy Rank-Christman and Lauren Poupis (2018) ,"How the Unconstructed Identity Relieves Consumers of Identity-Relevant Consumption", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46, eds. Andrew Gershoff, Robert Kozinets, and Tiffany White, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 270-275.
Authors
Tracy Rank-Christman, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
Lauren Poupis, Iona College
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46 | 2018
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