Shalini Bahl

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine online behaviors that increase or reduce risk of online identity theft and suggest that consumers need to be vigilant of new threats, such as the placement of cookies, hacking into hard drives, intercepting transactions, and observing online behavior via spyware.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that mindfulness is an antidote to mindless consumption, which adversely affects individual and collective well-being and highlight some of the challenges to realizing the transformative potential of mindful consumption and concludes with suggestions for the actions that consumers, institutions, and policy makers could take to promote mindful consumption.

TL;DR: This article explored the meaning of consumption at multiple self levels and dialogical relationships to manage differences in consumers' inner dialogs to understand consumers' marketplace decisions and conflicts and found that the consumption stories vary across self levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a mindfulness scale adapted from clinical psychology and use it to measure levels of students' mindfulness traits and their relationship both to mindless eating habits and to self-reported levels of stress.

TL;DR: Focusing on three barriers to consumers’ engagement in healthful behaviors, the authors suggest actions for health care providers, marketers, and policy makers to help overcome these barriers.