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Psychedelics have a complex history marked by traditional use among indigenous cultures, early scientific interest, and subsequent prohibition. Despite their classification as controlled substances, recent decades have witnessed a resurgence of research into their therapeutic potential for various mental health conditions. However, most studies have focused on controlled clinical settings, leaving a significant gap in understanding how these substances are used in naturalistic contexts, particularly in Latin America. This study investigates the regular use of macrodoses of psychedelics among Latin American adults. We aimed to characterize the sociodemographic profiles, consumption practices, and subjective effects experienced by individuals who use psychedelics regularly. Data were collected via an online survey from 4,270 participants across several Latin American countries. Results indicated a diverse user base with varied motivations, predominantly psychological and spiritual well-being. The most frequently used substance was psilocybin mushrooms, with significant associations found between demographic variables and specific psychedelics used. The study provides new insights into the naturalistic use of psychedelics in Latin America, highlighting the need for informed, safe, and legal use frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Psychedelics have a complex history marked by traditional use among indigenous cultures, early scientific interest, and subsequent prohibition. Despite their classification as controlled substances, recent decades have witnessed a resurgence of research into their therapeutic potential for various mental health conditions. However, most studies have focused on controlled clinical settings, leaving a significant gap in understanding how these substances are used in naturalistic contexts, particularly in Latin America. This study investigates the regular use of macrodoses of psychedelics among Latin American adults. We aimed to characterize the sociodemographic profiles, consumption practices, and subjective effects experienced by individuals who use psychedelics regularly. Data were collected via an online survey from 4,270 participants across several Latin American countries. Results indicated a diverse user base with varied motivations, predominantly psychological and spiritual well-being. The most frequently used substance was psilocybin mushrooms, with significant associations found between demographic variables and specific psychedelics used. The study provides new insights into the naturalistic use of psychedelics in Latin America, highlighting the need for informed, safe, and legal use frameworks.

Objective: Colombia has had a tobacco control legislation since 2009, however there is no specific regulation on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS). Therefore, it is crucial to characterize the qualitative dimensions of consumption. The study aimed to answer the question: What are the representations and practices of the university population regarding the consumption of SEAN? The objective of the study is to identify the practices and representations of ENDS consumers in order to obtain elements to guide the necessary actions to prevent their consumption. Methods: This paper presents the results identified in the qualitative component of a main study on the prevalence of ENDS use among university students. 14 individual interviews and 1 focus group were conducted and analyzed with the NVivo10® software. The corpus consisted of the transcripts of the 14 interviews and 1 focus group, which constitutes a total of 116 pages of raw data. The techniques used were semi-structured interviews and focus groups, using the Microsoft Teams platform. Taking into account ethical aspects, in each interview and in the focus group the informed consent was read and authorization was requested for the interview to be recorded. The average duration of each interview was one hour and forty-five minutes and the focus group lasted a total of 120 minutes. The capture of practices and representation related to the use/non-use of SEAN was achieved by incorporating two phases of analysis: a)Inductive phase: it was developed with an ordered matrix on the theoretical categories of the project, b)Phase of deductive analysis was carried out based on processes typical of the founded theory that allowed expanding the analytical framework having as its axis the identification of consumption practices and the elements that make up the central core and the peripheral system of representation. Results: The main results are the identification of consumption practices, from which it was derived that the central nucleus of the social representation of SEAN is non-autonomous, which enables a change that discourages its consumption. The reasons and practices for consuming ENDS are closely related to conventional cigarette consumption, which corresponds to the fact that 11 of the 14 interviewees who identify themselves as consumers have consumed conventional cigarettes and only two have been exclusive ENDS consumers. The following practices were identified: a) The consumption motivations were grouped like social, economic and socio-emotional; b) Three types of consumption spaces: prohibited, exclusive and recovered spaces. These last ones are places where you couldn't smoke cigarettes and now they feel empowered to vape; c) There are forms of differential consumption and access to ENDS related to the quality, price, exclusivity and adherence; d) Habits and rituals are not related to moments of daily life, as with cigarettes, but to practices such as searching for and mixing "salts" to obtain flavors, cleaning and maintaining the device, smoking tricks; e) About information channels among the interviewees it was noted that the practice of informed consumption is not frequent and that there are few sources of information that offer low confidence. Finally, the peripheral system of representation is made up of three elements: social dimension, the consumption of SEAN as a lifestyle, bodied and emotional dimension. Conclusion: It is concluded that the actions to prevent the consumption of ENDS should start from the identification of particular and exclusive characteristics of the consumption of ENDS and the incorporation of the elements of the peripheral system that allow addressing a consumption not based on making informed decisions. The main finding is the identification of a non-autonomous representation that stems from the difficulty of establishing notable differentiations between conventional cigarette consumption and e-cigarettes. Therefore, the main vein of research that opens up is to delve into the particular and exclusive characteristics of this consumption. It is essential to incorporate bodily, emotional, and especially social (interpersonal) dimensions as important variables in understanding the practices and representations of e-cigarettes through complex approaches that can break the solid elements on which conventional cigarette consumption is anchored, as it continues to define dynamics of electronic device consumption. It is important at this point to recognize that emotions can be understood as the intermediary between the lived experience in the body and everything that happens in the environment. Thus, it is not possible to think of this representation without recognizing that consumption is an embodied exercise, and the absence of the body in discourses about e-cigarettes can be a revealing element of a disconnection between practices and meanings that are reinforced in the insistence on an action (smoking is smoking) despite the recognition of its negative effects on health (even though it should not be). The understanding of the social representation of e-cigarette consumption in relation to specific practices related to it provides some clues on which to work on processes of information, communication, prevention, and regulation to discourage this consumption that appears relatively new. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, nuts have gained importance because of their nutritional benefits in promoting health and preventing chronic diseases. Despite their recognized role as part of healthy dietary patterns, global consumption is below recommended levels, necessitating an investigation of factors influencing consumption and the impact of nutrition education.ObjectiveTo investigate the attitudes, knowledge and consumption habits of students in Serbia regarding the consumption of nuts and to examine the role and importance of food- or nutrition-related topics in academic curricula in promoting positive attitudes and habits regarding the consumption of nuts among pharmacy students.MethodsAn electronic questionnaire was used to collect data for this cross-sectional study. A total of 509 responses were collected, including 382 from pharmacy students (75.0%) and 127 from non-pharmacy students (25.0%).ResultsAttitudes toward eating nuts were generally positive, with statistically significant differences found between pharmacy students and non-pharmacy students for 10 statements. The knowledge levels differed, with the mean total number of correct answers in the total sample being 3.9 ± 2.5 (R: 0-11, Mdn: 4) out of 13, and there was a statistically significant difference (p

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The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in physical distancing regulations, disrupting traditional practices of establishing and maintaining social relationships. We draw attention to digital nomadism as a mature case of navigating sociality in uncertainty to investigate how the linking value of materiality establishes social proximity without geographic contiguity through physical, virtual, and imagined practices. Using Miller's (1987) theory of materiality and triangulating data collected from in-depth interviews and netnography, this study details the material constitution of co-presence with others in physical distance. We propose that consumers oscillate between work—instrumental practices of signaling and curating—and play—emotional practices of belonging and indulging—to experience social linking across different spatial and temporal frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have expanded beyond the cryptoart movement into the digital realm, promising a multibillion-dollar virtual ecosystem. However, marketing studies that attempt to explain this phenomenon remain nascent and even scarce. To fill this void, our research responds to a call for explicit usage of marketing theories to explain the universe of actions and the unacknowledged conditions that constitute people's behaviors when purchasing NFTs. More precisely, this research applies Holt's typology of consumption practices and provides useful insights based on empirical findings into the different ways in which NFT customers consume digital data. Moreover, we propose a research agenda to drive discussions regarding the consumption practices of and potential markets for NFTs. Our contribution extends the usage of information technology and addresses anyone working in marketing science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advertisements for commodities offer a unique keyhole into the shifting consumption practices and media constructions of the youthful consumer. An analysis of five student and youth magazines foregrounds the gendered and materialistic idealisations of leisure invoked to promote branded goods in the Indian youth market. Analysing advertisements in these magazines allows us to trace the increasingly sophisticated way in which capitalist actors stratified the domain of advertising by life stages during the late colonial and early post-colonial periods in India. This finding runs contrary to the grain of historiography that contends that the Indian 'market' failed to respond to the interests of consumers prior to the media liberalisation of the 1980s and 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interest in the topic of sustainable development is steadily growing, responsible business models show stability in modern conditions of socio-economic turbulence. The aim is to demonstrate by the example of the chosen company the concept of ethical consumption influence effects on organization management and business development in the aging economy. Methods: the case study method to generalize consumption practices based on ethics and development of organization management model, benchmarking of organization management practices based on the concept of ethical consumption for the Tomsk market. The authors complied a comparative characteristic for the parameters of the Tomsk food market organizations operating on the basis of the ethical consumption concept; developed a model of the concept of ethical consumption for SibirEko LLC and proposed recommendations for adjusting the corporate strategy. Conclusions. The practice of applying the ethical consumption concept is in development in the Russian market, in general, and Tomsk, in particular. The authors proposed a three-pronged development model based on the case of the Tomsk organization and developed measures to improve business management taking into account the aging of the population and the development of new markets and business areas. The authors concluded that food producers in Tomsk focused on further access to export markets, but not on the development of the domestic «silver market».

The temporal distance, difference of media, and diverse motivations would seem to preclude a convincing application of Dante's work in a contemporary street artist's experiments, but CIBO, who began painting over neofascist graffiti with his urban murals of traditional Italian foods after a far-right wing group killed his university classmate, confirms that his recent work engaging Dante has been met with huge enthusiasm. This essay will trace the means by which Dante continues to speak to a twenty-first century audience, particularly those focused on activism and civic duty, through a gastronomic language that transcends chronological and geographic limitations, but also delineates the boundaries of an inclusive and self-aware community that can continue to find strength in gestures of nourishment, understanding conviviality as a true living together. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neo-liberal economy politics and the uprising of new high-spender conservative elites escalate radical urban transformations in Istanbul. Urban spaces that rapidly segregate from each other witness the symbolic conflicts of social groups that own cultural, economic and spatial capital. This study focuses on how a specific café chain in Istanbul is consumed as a privileged public space by its secular elite regulars and how they manifest their distinction, prestige, identity and belonging in the café. Accordingly, the eating and drinking experience in the café has been observed through a field study at this café's seven branches in Istanbul. This study argues that the current symbolic conflict triggered by uncomfortable spatial proximity and balancing out discrepancies between Istanbul's conservative and secular elites could be interpreted within this particular social space of belonging and exclusion. We put forward that secular elites' consumption practices with the exertion of a spatial capital formed a privileged social space representing territorial exclusionary claims on certain micro-places in İstanbul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relevance. The work draws attention to the problems of the formation of consumption practices in old age as a fast-growing market segment (the growth rate according to the World Bank is 3 % per year). The aim is to identify trends in consumer behavior in conditions of social restrictions and to determine the availability of new digital social services for the elderly. Methods. The data from sociological surveys conducted in November 2020 (N=60) and in March–April 2021 (N=400, 55+) in the Tomsk region are used as an empirical base. As a result, we established that low consumption capacity affects the formation of consumption practices. The institutional gap has been revealed between high needs for social services and low demand for created social services. Conclusions. Consumption practices in older age are heterogeneous, a significant impact is exerted by a shortage of financial resources and values of helping the inner circle, strategies for saving on the most necessary are formed. The subjective assessment of respondents of social support institutions is extremely low. It is revealed that only in the field of social assistance new practices of remote interaction are being formed on the basis of digitalization of social services. The practice of remote treatment for material or medical care has not been identified. Trust in the institution of state support is extremely low, new digital services do not have a significant impact on maintaining the level and quality of life in conditions of social restrictions of the older age group.

Although consumers' temporal experiences in the performance of single practices of extraordinary nature have been well understood, there is not yet a clear understanding of how temporal experiences unfold from the recurrent performance of complexes of practices. Conversely, we delve into how the recurrent performance of quotidian complexes of practices affects consumers' temporal experiences. To do so, we adopt a Rhythmanalysis lens to study the recurrent performance of runners and swimmers. We contribute to the literature by proposing that global rhythms are enduring and encompassing temporal experiences unfolding from the recurrent performance of complexes of practices through a process involving the orchestration of complexes of practices, the embodied effects of its routinization, the integration of consumption habits, and social involvement with communities of practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research identifies the relationship between consumption practices and the construction of social identity among tweens in a Brazilian context. Using consumer culture theory and social identity theory, we employed 80 h of observation, 9 interviews, and projective techniques with fifteen girls. Three social identity groups were acknowledged: naive, connected, and counselors. These groups revealed different identity projects, such as the integration and maintenance within the social group of current belonging, the access to the social group with the greater distinctions, the generation of differentiable and positive distinctions (both intra- and intergroups), and the expression and consolidation of identity and its respective consumption practices. This research contributes to the consumption literature that relates to consumer identity projects. The findings reveal a current resignification of girlhood and exposes tweens' consumption practices as a direct mechanism of the expression and construction of their social identities. These are mechanisms of social identity construction as mediated by group relations through the processes of access, maintenance, integration, differentiation, and distinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research draws on protection motivation theory, temporal construal theory, and self‐determination theory to understand consumption practices during a pandemic crisis by looking at the narratives of British consumers during the COVID‐19 crisis. A two‐stage design is adopted: the first stage adopts an exploratory strategy to identify consumption‐related themes using netnography, while the second stage explores these themes further to gain a deeper insight through 13 semi‐structured interviews. Three themes emerge relating to different aspects of consumption practices. These themes are found to link to the self‐control research area and include consumers' self‐control changing their shopping behaviour, having less self‐control over unhealthy snack consumption and having less self‐control concerning alcohol. These lead to changes in other consumption practices, including store format and type of shopping. Different initiatives are discussed to help retailers retain their new lockdown customers to help manufacturers provide healthier options and to help weight management businesses and the National Health Service reduce unhealthy consumption habits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research draws on protection motivation theory, temporal construal theory, and self-determination theory to understand consumption practices during a pandemic crisis by looking at the narratives of British consumers during the COVID-19 crisis. A two-stage design is adopted: the first stage adopts an exploratory strategy to identify consumption-related themes using netnography, while the second stage explores these themes further to gain a deeper insight through 13 semi-structured interviews. Three themes emerge relating to different aspects of consumption practices. These themes are found to link to the self-control research area and include consumers' self-control changing their shopping behaviour, having less self-control over unhealthy snack consumption and having less self-control concerning alcohol. These lead to changes in other consumption practices, including store format and type of shopping. Different initiatives are discussed to help retailers retain their new lockdown customers to help manufacturers provide healthier options and to help weight management businesses and the National Health Service reduce unhealthy consumption habits., Competing Interests: The author declares that they have no conflict of interest., (© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)