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This study explores the social ecology of publication productivity in the Journal of Consumer Research (Volumes 1 through 20). It examines the distribution of scholarly productivity as it relates to collaborative networks of authors. It is found that these networks resemble tree-like structures with successful scholars as their “trunks” and collaborators as the branches. Thus, we find structural effects of network centrality of authors on their individual publication productivity and of network density on network publication productivity.

The term “yellow notes” has long been used to refer to the academician's trusty and unchanged tool for “effective” teaching. This article discusses how new technologies are changing both the marketing discipline and higher education. These changes are making the old “yellow notes” an endangered species. Several areas of specific attention are addressed with respect to their effect on marketing and marketing education. The article speculates on potential outcomes of these changes and concludes new technologies will be very useful to marketing academicians in surviving and thriving in the information age. However, new technologies should be adopted with the ever present knowledge that there are core needs which must be addressed and that the use of “high technology” places an even greater burden on us to distinguish what we do with “high touch.”

This paper describes the results of five previously unpublished studies designed to investigate the distinctiveness of consumers' need for uniqueness scale (CNFU) from two competing predictors of differentiating behaviors from the psychological literature - individuation and general need for uniqueness. Consumers' need for uniqueness is defined as the trait of pursuing differentness relative to others through the acquisition, utilization, and disposition of consumer goods for the purpose of developing and enhancing one's self-image and social image. As such, the research offers additional evidence from an extensive program of research regarding the validity of the consumer need for uniqueness scale developed by Tepper, Bearden and Hunter (2000). Specifically, the results of the studies demonstrate that the scale operates distinctively through counterconformity motivation as hypothesized and moderates the effects of situational variables on preferences for differentiating consumer offerings as expected.

In this paper we discuss some key issues involved in developing, validating, and reducing multi-item scales of paper and pencil measures. Specifically, we examine the importance of content validity, dimensionality, coefficient alpha, scale length, and item redundancy with a focus on the inter-relatedness of these psychometric properties. We also examine the viability of reduced-item scales and discuss some recent trends in self-report measures of marketing and consumer behavior-related constructs.