Trickle-down preferences: Preferential conformity to high status peers in fashion choices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Galak, Jeff ^a   Gray, Kurt ^b   Elbert, Igor ^c   Strohminger, Nina ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Independent Researcher   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SHOE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; SHOES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994731382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153448     Document Type: Article

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