Technology hasn’t just changed the way consumers use goods and services, it’s also changed the way they own them. Music collections, for example, have evolved from hundreds of alphabetically-organized records on a shelf, to carefully edited digital libraries, to the 2021 version — a list of songs stored on Spotify or some other streaming platform. […]

New York University marketing professor Priya Raghubir’s lightbulb moment about consumer behavior came in the late 1990s, when she was a new mother struggling with a fussy baby who refused to eat. One particularly exasperating day, she switched the bowl she normally used to feed her son and was amazed that he gobbled up everything. […]

Everybody loves a winner. It’s human nature to herd to the winning side in order to reap the benefits of belonging to a dominant group. That maxim has long held true in sports, and new research shows how it applies to the complicated relationship between politics and branding. Following a major election, consumer preferences shift. […]