“…In various studies, the relationship between the transferred ritual and culture (Langer, Lüddeckens, Radde and Snoek, 2006;Langer, 2011;Werbner, 1986), the relationship between rituals and buying behavior (Kazançoğlu and Aytekin, 2014;Ratcliffe et al, 2019;Rook, 1985;Sandıkçı and Omeraki, 2007), consumer cynicism (Atılgan, İnce and Yılmaz, 2017;Bozoklu and Ermeç, 2020;Güven, 2016;Özkaya and Ülker, 2020;Tokgöz, 2020), consumer cynicism towards the name of "Black Friday" and its reflections on the media (Akcan et al, 2020;Çetinkaya and Ceng, 2018;Dağtaş and Yıldırım, 2018;Yetmez, 2020), campaign analysis on Black Friday (Onbaş, 2020), the contradiction between consumers' attitudes towards Black Friday and their buying behaviors (Şahin and Yünaçtı, 2018) were examined. Within the scope of the literature review, no study has been found that reveals the reasons for the cynical attitudes of consumers engaged in buying behavior regarding a ritual transferred from the West, the relationship of these attitudes with culture and the justifications underlying the buying behavior of consumers within the framework of the cognitive dissonance theory.…”