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People who buy green products do so not out of a concern to save the planet, but because they are status symbols, according to research from the Rotterdam School of Management. Bram Van den Bergh, the report’s co-author, says that when shopping in private—online, say—customers forgo ethical concerns and plump for luxury. In public, however, they spend more on products which make them appear altruistic. Mr Van den Bergh believes that the phenomenon is linked to a biological theory that altruism might function as a “costly signal” associated with status.
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