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Psychology: Luxury Goods

Psychology: Luxury Goods

Executive Summary

Luxury products is a niche segment of marketing and is not focussed not pricing strategy alone. To effectively market these products, it is important to understand the psychology of today’s youth towards these products. The paper reviews the article “The behaviour of the young towards luxury products” written by Allérès in 1999, in the context of understanding consumer behaviour.
The review of the article establishes three points. First, the young people do aspire for luxury products. Second, the youth is familiar with luxury products and effortlessly recall names of the famous luxury brands. ...

The following is the critique of the research article titled: “Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU”.

Research problem/purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the differences in nursing workload between consecutive shifts, using a nursing workload measurement tool. The aim of the study is to measure the workload of nurses between two consecutive shift using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). This study is designed to solve a common problem related to handling of nursing manpower in the ICU. The research is in line with existing knowledge about man power placement and workload. This research addresses an important issue pertinent to managing the global problem of nurses man power shortage and finding ways to ...

The Buchla’s Box is probably one of the most important innovation in the electronic music scene in the 1960’s. The musical instrument named after its creator, Don Buchla, is no doubt one of the greatest addition to the achievements of the music composer and instruments creator. Buchla, born to a test pilot for the air force and a teacher, always had a passion for music but put it aside to pursue a career in physics as an electronics engineer (Pinch and Trocco 33). Buchla later dropped out of UC Berkeley at the height of the Cold War ...

The article is focused on the issue of understanding social cognitive mapping (SCM) and analyzing whether it is a black box method as claimed by Farmer and Xie, or not. The authors try to demonstrate empirically what SCM measures and according to their view, it measures peer interactions. They also state that Farmer and Xie’s suggestion that the probe measures developmental processes, perceptions and shared preferences is incorrect, as such wide range of different phenomena cannot be measured by such a simple method. Neal & Neal (2013) prove their argument by stating the fact that there are more precise ...

The Nacirema are a group of North Americans who live between the Canadian Creel, the Yaqui, and the Mexican Tarahumare, and the Antilles’ Arawak and Carib. Their tradition indicates that they came from the east. The culture of the Nacirema comprises of a well-organized market economy, developed in a rich natural habitat. Ritual activities, on the other hand, consume a considerable portion of the people’s resources and time. The human body, its health and appearance, is the main focus of these rituals. The ceremonies and philosophies that accompany the rituals are unique and unusual. The whole system is based on the belief ...

Description of Wheatley’s Essay

Margaret Wheatley’s Essay “Innovation Means Relying on Everyone’s Creativity” has two central points guiding a wealth of practical knowledge on organizational leadership gained through her experiences. The first is that organizations act in the same way as living organism. The whole of the organization can be seen as a species that will change according to alterations to environmental conditions. The second part of her thesis is “People only support what they create” (Wheatley, 2001). This means that in order to get support for new policies or changes to the organization, everyone within the organization must play a role in enacting ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

Article Review

Snyder, Stephanie. Open primary 'business as usual,' observers say. California Watch. (June 18, 2012)
The article by Snyder (2012) titled, open primary ‘business as usual’, observers say, tries to bring out the difficult political situation in California were moderate candidates cannot get a chance to run in the general elections in November. This is true because in the traditional primaries, the candidates that end up in the ballot box come November are either liberals who are democrats, or conservatives who are Republicans. Either way, both sets of candidates are extremes who frustrate approval of budget until one compromises.
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