Niels van de Ven

Professor in Marketing

The Envy Premium in Product Evaluation


Journal article


Niels van de Ven, Marcel Zeelenberg, Rik Pieters
Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 37(6), 2011, pp. 984-998


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van de Ven, N., Zeelenberg, M., & Pieters, R. (2011). The Envy Premium in Product Evaluation. Journal of Consumer Research, 37(6), 984–998. https://doi.org/10.1086/657239


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Ven, Niels van de, Marcel Zeelenberg, and Rik Pieters. “The Envy Premium in Product Evaluation.” Journal of Consumer Research 37, no. 6 (2011): 984–998.


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van de Ven, Niels, et al. “The Envy Premium in Product Evaluation.” Journal of Consumer Research, vol. 37, no. 6, 2011, pp. 984–98, doi:10.1086/657239.


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@article{niels2011a,
  title = {The Envy Premium in Product Evaluation},
  year = {2011},
  issue = {6},
  journal = {Journal of Consumer Research},
  pages = {984-998},
  volume = {37},
  doi = {10.1086/657239},
  author = {van de Ven, Niels and Zeelenberg, Marcel and Pieters, Rik}
}

[envy is often thought to drive consumption. we test whether this is the case, and indeed find that people who are benignly envious are willing to pay more for a product owned if someone with that product triggered benign envy. for malicious envy, people seem to actually prefer other products]