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Time in Consumption: Bridging Past, Present, and Future Consumer Research

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  • Thomas Robinson
  • Ela Veresiu
  • June Cotte

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This special issue explores the ubiquitous yet complex role of time in the marketplace. Building on over 50 years of research, this collection synthesizes contributions across micropsychological, mesoinstitutional, and macrocultural levels. Some of the work in this issue examines the fresh deadline effect, the dominance of enjoyment in goal progress, and gendered consumer timework used to navigate societal timelines. Collectively, these articles reposition time as an engineered meaning system with significant ethical and managerial implications regarding consumer pressure and well-being. Beyond synthesizing current findings, this editorial proposes a novel future agenda titled “The Edge of Time.” It advocates for a shift from within-time thinking toward outside-time thinking, exploring phenomena such as non-time, mortal-time, temporal solvents in extraordinary experiences, and the mega-time of climate and geology. By investigating these temporal boundaries, consumer researchers can better understand how time experiences are managed to help both people and the planet thrive.

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  • Thomas Robinson & Ela Veresiu & June Cotte, 2026. "Time in Consumption: Bridging Past, Present, and Future Consumer Research," Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, University of Chicago Press, vol. 11(3), pages 235-241.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jacres:doi:10.1086/741359
    DOI: 10.1086/741359
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