Behavioral Economic Research Concerning Ethical Consumerism And Connections

Funder (2006) defines personality as a person’s pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior, with psychological mechanisms and underpinnings. Studying personality within the field of social psychology makes logical senses. While the study of personality psychology seeks to determine the various ways that people differ from one another, and figure out individuals from the inside out, personality within social psychology seeks to figure out individuals from the inside out in varying contexts. Personality psychologists deal with one main challenge – there are so many facets to one’s personality that it is hard to view one’s personality within one single lens. Therefore, before exploring personality within the context of social realms, it is important to view the many facets and approaches to examining personality and its variations.

Personality is a complex area of Psychology, which has been studied for many years, by many experts in the field. Each having their own ideas about how to understand, study and evaluate it. Here I will introduce personality briefly, looking at the theories behind it. Then explain the need for testing. As there are many test that are available to use, for the purpose of this essay I will look at The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and discuss the reliability and validity of some studies around these tests.

Fair trade is a market reactive system that wants to abolish global inhumane acts from child labor, poor working environments, low wages, and healthy working conditions. Fair Trade does not control the prices at a local level the producers

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In conclusion, the topic of free trade is difficult to debate and often controversial as it has advantages but also disadvantages. Nonetheless, the drawbacks outweigh the benefits as it one, contravenes basic moral ideologies, two, makes the rich, richer, and the poor, poorer, and three, jeopardizes our declining environment. All in all, free trade will neither support nor sustain our country to be ethical, prosperous or

This article is about free trade. It starts off saying that free trade is good for "lower prices, more productive economy, and ultimately everyone better off." The second paragraph is how “free trade is also a tax issue” that if we cut or reduce a tariff it means the government gets less money. The next point is about which candidates are for and against free trade. After that it lists a few reasons that free trade is good, then it goes on to say "try telling ... someone who lost his job and perceives that it is because of free trade.” Then it says for people who are proponents of free trade, what do we do about it? It goes on about how it will have to be done with small steps. Americans will have to start trusting in Congress, Congress will have to build our trust by cutting taxes on Imports while still protecting the American people from things like job loss that free trade might cost. The article continues on by stating ways that the Congress could act to help fair trade. The first item is HR 4730

The United States consumes “2.8 billion pounds of chocolate each year, or over 11 pounds per person. Americans eat an average of 22 pounds of candy each year”(The Chocolate Store). Because the United States consumes an exuberant amount of chocolate, the nation poses an insurmountable influence on the processes of the chocolate industry. Fair Trade strives to ensure the safety of workers in the chocolate industry, allow workers to make liveable profits and most importantly, This corporation ensures that no child labor was used in the process of harvesting the cocoa. Not only does Fair Trade aid in helping cocoa farmers achieve a higher quality of life, but the majority of Fair Trade efforts improve education for children while keeping them out of the plantations and in the classroom. Fair Trade premiums provide money to families who desperately need birth certificates for their children because “if a family does not obtain a birth certificate within the child’s first few months of life, it can be very expensive and burdensome to obtain one” and many schools require birth certificates to enroll (Huffington Post). Fair Trade premiums also allow for more schools to be built in areas abundant with cocoa plantations (Huffington Post). Even though Fair Trade certified chocolate is more expensive than uncertified products, basic human rights have no dollar amount. The extra money paid for Fair Trade certified chocolate goes to aiding children in breaking free from a cycle poverty, which would otherwise be endless. The few more coins spent on Fair Trade chocolate provides hope to those bound in slavery to the world’s

With the United States currently experiencing another presidential election the world is in suspense, watching to see who will become the next leader of the free world. Such halt corresponds to the running of two presidential candidates: Hillary D. Clinton and Donald J. Trump. Such halt derives from candidates proposed trade policies for the United States and its ramifications. This emphasis on trade originates from this idea that we live in a globalized economy and with the United States being a predominate actor within the international community, policies, for instance, that do not support globalize trade potentially harm developing and developed countries who have ties to the U.S.. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump share similarities amongst their trade agendas; for example, Clinton’s policies surrounding trade must “work” for the U.S. while Trump 's objective is to renegotiate current and future trade agreements to better suit the U.S.. Therefore, each candidate’s trade proposal must undergo an evaluation of the potential outcomes that derive from each proposal and identify which candidate 's agenda is better suited for the United States and the global aim to liberalize trade. Candidate Hillary Clinton’s trade policies, although minimal in its size, maintains relationships with allied countries and does not harm the United States in trade; while on the other hand, candidate Donald Trump’s trade policies lead to negative ramifications that hurt the

While the idea of the fairtrade movement is arguably not bad at all, the metaphor always leaves me with a somewhat bad feeling. Keeping the movement in mind, I want to focus on the phrasing for now. The metaphor is making use of the assumption that trade means to have an equal and therefore fair exchange between two parties. Since fairness is an intrinsic value most of us share and want to see in the world, it is very easy to agree with the metaphor, which is why the metaphor has a mostly positive connotation. However, the metaphor is, in fact not just phrasing, but linked to a real movement. Putting the agreeable connotation aside, I think we should more often question whether fairtrade really is a fair trade at all.

The psychological argument based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs argues that people would pursue the higher order need of esteem after meeting their basic needs; and so, it is psychologically reasonable when people who have met their basic needs, such as those with relatively higher income, to pursue esteem over economic reasoning. Those consumers can then attain such self-worth by shopping ethically because aiding others reassures the consumers of their importance in society; such behavior is evident in the ethical consumerist practices of locally sourcing and fair trade, both of which seek to uphold fair living standards for

The month of October is themed “Every Purchase Matters” for Fair Trade USA. This annual awareness campaign rings together a diverse range of corporate, nonprofit, producer and consumer partners with more than 100 events – including fund-raising parties, and promotions across the United States. These events raise understanding and knowledge of the Fair Trade movement with “social, economic, and environmental empowerment” for the farming population and consumers all across the globe (Economics, 2010). In Addition to Fair Trade USA, Cohort 4 believes that the general American population does not support free trade as well. “NBC news and Wall Street Journal did a poll and the results were interesting. Sixty nine percent of Americans believe that free trade agreements with other countries have cost jobs in the United States. While eighteen percent believe that they have created jobs” (Harwood). During the recession it is easy to see that many Americans are out of work. Since many products used in the U.S.

In Megumi Naoi’s and Ikuo Kume’s article “Workers or Consumers? A Survey Experiment on the Duality of Citizens’ Interests in the Politics of Trade,” the two authors successfully display how consumer and protectionist interests can clash within one person and even present themselves in a person’s party alignment when it comes to politics, though there is an unequal emphasis and far more length than is likely needed to get their point across well and with enough proof to be considered credible.

The following will reflect this researchers understanding and reflection on personality, how it defines one, what it means, and if one’s personality changes to fit certain situations. At the end this researcher may have a better insight into herself as well as the personalities of others. This insight can help her in her future endeavors.

2009). This in itself shows the high standards of sustainability can be made from free trade (Gidney, M. 2009). Fair trade provides two key benefits that can help with the current world economic crisis. First it provides sustained benefits for producers that can help maintain their business through fluctuations of the world market (Gidney, M. 2009). Second, fair trade helps to maintain fair prices, additional social premium, and long-term partnerships that help provide better living standards for millions of people in over 60 countries (Gidney, M. 2009).

The fair trade concept, based on the idea of both economic activity and social development, is replete with ethical and sustainable echoes. Ransom (2002 p 20) asks, 'can the