Journal of Consumer Affairs

2012 - 2026

Current editor(s): Sharon Tennyson

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Volume 60, issue 2, 2026

Learning From AI‐Generated Financial Educational Content: Impacts on Subjective Knowledge and Financial Well‐Being

Inga Timmerman

Mobile App Runtime Permissions and the Privacy Paradox: Hot‐State Decisions, Digital Literacy, and Consumer Consent

Fan Yang

The Gender Gap in Financial Literacy—The Role of Response Behavior

Lucy Haag, Luis Oberrauch and Taiga Brahm

Beyond the Drug Label: Regulatory‐Induced Complexities in Health Information

Marie A. Yeh, Kristen L. Walker, Kimberly V. Legocki, Molly Torres and Meike Eilert

Time Will Tell—A Longitudinal Study of Consideration of Future Consequences and Financial Behavior in Young Adults

Andrea Lučić, Marija Ježovit and Nikola Erceg

Designing Eco‐Friendly Message Sidedness for Consumer Happiness: How Inference of Motivation Shapes Affective Consumer Welfare

Hyukjin Jung and Hanku Kim

Rethinking Emotional Labor: AI's Role in Shaping Consumer and Worker Well‐Being

Wookjae Heo and Sun Young Ahn

Capturing Adults' Familiarity With Financial Fraud: Relationships With Targeting, Engagement, and Victimization

Duygu Başaran Şahin, Olivia Valdes, Gary R. Mottola, Andrew M. Parker, Kelly Hyde, Sierra Smucker and Emily Hoch

Unequal Contributions in the Climate Transition: Income and Household Differences in Food‐Related Carbon Emissions in South Korea

Su‐Jung Nam, Hyesun Hwang and Xu Li

Blind Spots in Product Design: Utilitarian–Hedonic Choices, Psychological Processes and Retail Strategy Interplay for Visually Impaired Consumers

Bruno Veneziano Cornacchioni, Flávio Santino Bizarrias, Evandro Luiz Lopes, Marcelo Luiz Dias da Silva Gabriel and Ricardo Limongi

Perceived Gift Value and Subjective Well‐Being of Chinese Older Adults: A Self‐Concept–Based Framework Informed by Zhongyong Thinking

Weihua Wang and Hyeong Yu Jang

Positive Technology for Consumer Well‐Being: The Role of Blockchain‐Based Digital Product Passports in Mitigating Consumer Stress

Jisu Jang and Jiyun Kang

Exploring the Impact of Consumer Traits and IT Availability on Purchase Intention in Live E‐Commerce: A Two‐Phase Analysis Using PLS‐SEM and fsQCA

Xin Mei Ye and Min Ye

Calling All Fraud Fighters! Evidence From a Counter‐Marketing Campaign to Prevent Repeat Fraud Victimization

Lynn Langton, Marguerite DeLiema, Daniel Brannock, Edward Preble, Brian Southwell and Alison Proctor

“Just Do It?” Not So Fast: Why Trust in AI Needs an Interdisciplinary Theoretical Reboot

Courtney Kidd

How Consumers Evaluate Human, AI, and Hybrid Therapists: Psychological Pathways to Expected Service Satisfaction

Todd C. Haderlie, Sphurti Sewak, Sandipan Sen and Anthony D. Miyazaki

Bank on It: How Bank Account Access Enhances the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Programs in Pakistan: A Quasi‐Experimental Evaluation

Awais Farid Khan, Andreas Chai, Nicholas Rohde and Mirela Malin

Volume 60, issue 1, 2026

Panic‐Buying Behavior Is No More a Cosmetic Behavior: A Bibliometric Review and Future Research Agenda

Shalini Sahni, Vikas Arya, D. El‐Manstrly, Amee Agrawal, Smita M. Gaikwad and Rani Susmitha

To What Extent Did Social Media Use Contribute to Financial Hardship During the COVID‐19 Pandemic?

Abbey Bartosiak, Cäzilia Loibl, Haotian Zheng and Stephen Roll

From Financial Exclusion to Collective Stability: Worker Cooperatives and Precarious Immigrant Workers' Financial Capability

Seon Mi Kim, Yunju Nam, Julie Birkenmaier and Cristian Cosey

Empowered or Overwhelmed? Wearable Health Technologies and Consumer Well‐Being in the Context of Consumer–Physician Interactions

Brittany B. Beck, Mary P. Harrison, Ream Shoreibah, Mathew Joseph and Teri Grimmer

Effectiveness of Sales Promotions on Vegetable Consumption Among Heterogeneous Consumer Groups: A Causal Forest Approach

Yuting Liu, Jong Hoon Shin and Abdoul G. Sam

Consumer Awareness in the Digital Age

Devesh Raval

Volume 59, issue 4, 2025

Measuring Crypto Literacy

Michael Jones, Truong Luu and Binny M. Samuel

Examining Consumers' Illusion of Control and Impulsive Acquisition of Companion Animals: Effects on Future Distress and Abandonment Intention

Gonzalo Luna‐Cortes

Impact of Information Overload on Consumer Decision‐Making in the Agri‐Food Sector: A Stimulus‐Organism‐Response Theory Perspective

Bingyu Ying, Yanqing Duan, Shuangyu Zheng and Xiaoping Zheng

Revisiting Algorithmic Bounded Rationality With Potential Solutions: How Recommendation Systems Amplify Cognitive Biases in Consumer Decision‐Making

Wookjae Heo

Incentivizing or Disincentivizing? How Perceived Social Mobility Affects Consumers' Risk Preference

Heping He, Siwei Liu, Yongzhang Liu and Monika Kukar‐Kinney

The Dark Side of AI in Insurance: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms Linking AI Design Features to Consumer Harm

Zhangwei Zheng, Qin Lingda Tan, Xiaowei Zheng and Yaliu Yang

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED: The Effect of California's Proposition 65 Warning on Consumer Perceptions and Evaluations

Lauren Drury, Kristina Medvedeva and Katie Kelting

Volume 59, issue 3, 2025

Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses

Taufiq Hasan Quadria and Israt Jahan

“Pathways” to Financial Well‐Being: The Role of Perceptions of Economic Mobility, Trait Hope, and Financial Capability for Minority and Low‐Income Consumers

Jonathan Ross Gilbert, Daniel A. Sheinin, Jing Jian Xiao and Bo Wen

A National Risk Aversion Perspective on Pension Contributions and Benefits Paid: Insights From OECD Countries

Dinh Van, Thai Le and Huong Phung

The Relationship Between Financial Satisfaction and Financial Literacy: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Joelle H. Fong and Talia Ye Tao

Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly

Xu Cui, Jing Jian Xiao and Jinpeng Wang

Payment Preference or Necessity: Who Uses BNPL and Why

Jeff Larrimore, Alicia Lloro, Zofsha Merchant and Anna Tranfaglia

Factors and Determinants of Financial Behaviors That Undermine Financial Well‐Being: A Qualitative Study

Tania Morris, Lamine Kamano and Vicky Therrien

What My Parents Did for Me: Parental Financial Sacrifice, Money Scripts, and Financial Behaviors Among Hong Kong Youths in Low‐SES Households

Xiaomin Li, Ashley Kuelz, Muhammad Aamir Khan and Ashley B. LeBaron‐Black

Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Siti N. Suwanda, Emily C. Tanner, Farnoush Reshadi and M. Paula Fitzgerald

The Hedonic Penalty in Supporting Low‐Income Consumers' Needs

Hoori Rafieian, Anubhav Aggarwal, Eric Hamerman and Qi Di Zheng

Volume 59, issue 2, 2025

Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth

Aaron J. Staples, Trey Malone, Brenna Ellison and Vincenzina Caputo

Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing

Inês Raeiro, Jonas Nilsson, Xuexin Li and Jeanette Carlsson Hauff

Scale Development and Validation of Generation Y's Travel Purchasing Behavior (GenYpurch)

Gul Nur Demiral and Erkan Sezgin

Political Orientation and Vaccination Attitude: The Moderating Role of Power Distance Belief

Genevieve O'Connor, Hoori Rafieian, Nancy Wong and Avani Surana

The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry

Frank M. Magwegwe

Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents

Bo Dhondt, Dieneke Van de Sompel and Liselot Hudders

Social Capital and Its Psychological Consequences on Consumer Resilience–A Mediated Moderation Model

Lucie K. Ozanne, Girish Prayag and Mesbahuddin Chowdhury

Factors That Influence Willingness to Commit Insurance Fraud

Brenda J. Cude and Hanchun Zhang

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access

Yingying Zhang, Julie Birkenmaier and Jin Huang

Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility

Jasmira T. E. Wiersma, Rob J. M. Alessie, Adriaan Kalwij, Annamaria Lusardi and Maarten van Rooij

Household Financial Wellbeing During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Instrumental Variable Approach

Nilton Porto, Gary R. Mottola and Olivia Valdes

Volume 59, issue 1, 2025

Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability

Swarn Chatterjee and Yunhee Chang

The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions

Amin Attari, Frank G. Cabano and Elizabeth A. Minton

COVID‐19 Labor Market Shocks and Withdrawals From Retirement Accounts: Understanding the Moderating Role of Financial Knowledge

Sunwoo Lee, Kyoung Tae Kim and Sherman D. Hanna

Enhancing Consumer Satisfaction in Complex Choices Through a Sequential Elimination Approach

Olga Poluektova, Martina Barjaková and Pete Lunn

Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste

Hyesun Hwang, Su‐Jung Nam and Yu Lim Lee

Digital Vulnerability: Exploring the Mediating Role of FoMO in the Relationship Between Dark Triad Personality and Social Media Addiction

Chien‐Po Liao, Chi‐Cheng Wu and Eva Chia Hua Chiu

Distinguishing Between Recovery and Transformation: A Systematic Review of Purchasing and Consumption During Crises

Eimante Survilaite, Vilte Auruskeviciene, Žilvinas Židonis, Dalius Misiunas, Justina Sidlauskiene and Nerijus Maciulis

Consumer Confusion About Product Names Commonly Used to Describe Hemp‐Based Oils

Brandon R. McFadden, Kawsheha Muraleetharan, Benjamin Campbell, Adam Rabinowitz, Tyler Mark and Michael Popp

Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning

Zefeng Bai, Shuxin Zheng and Jinglin Hu

Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity

Lena Cavusoglu and Melike Demirbag‐Kaplan