consumer behavior
activities of individuals, groups, and organizations associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services
panic buying
act of buying unusually large amounts of a product in anticipation of a shortage of supply or rapid increase in cost
delayed gratification
psychological concept describing a process that the subject undergoes when the subject resists the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward
boycott
act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country
beer-diapers syndrome
purported correlation between sales of beer and diapers