Journal of Consumer Research最新文献_第2页

Who Am I Here? Care Consumers’ Identity Processes and Family Caregiver Interventions in the Elderscape 我是谁？老年景观中护理消费者的身份认同过程和家庭护理者的干预措施

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae045

Julia Rötzmeier-Keuper, Nancy V Wünderlich

{"title":"Who Am I Here? Care Consumers’ Identity Processes and Family Caregiver Interventions in the Elderscape","authors":"Julia Rötzmeier-Keuper, Nancy V Wünderlich","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae045","url":null,"abstract":"With increasing longevity, the need for institutional elderly care has become commonplace. This study explores the experiences of elderly care consumers in institutional care settings, which we define as the “elderscape”—a heterotopic place shaped by the marketization of care. Drawing from 24 in-depth interviews with elderly care consumers, their family caregivers, and professional caregivers, we present a model of elderly care consumers' navigation patterns and identity processes in the elderscape. The transition to the elderscape often compels elderly consumers to strive to preserve their identities. Boundaries defined by market logic and professional care logic require elderly care consumers to navigate these constraints, sometimes adapting their identities. As a result, distinct navigation patterns emerge: rebuilding personal connections, revaluating possessions, reconsidering activities, and reclaiming space. Furthermore, the identity preservation efforts of elderly care consumers are complicated by the interventions of family caregivers. The findings highlight the dual nature of family caregivers' impact on elderly consumers' identity processes. Depending on their motivations—such as care, obligation, or nostalgia—family caregivers engage in patterned actions that either support or destabilize the elderly consumers' identity processes. This research provides valuable insights for care institutions, family caregivers, and care consumers alike.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141741092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The Visual Complexity = Higher Production Cost Lay Belief 视觉复杂性 = 更高的生产成本 Lay Belief

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae044

Lauren Min, Peggy J Liu, Cary L Anderson

{"title":"The Visual Complexity = Higher Production Cost Lay Belief","authors":"Lauren Min, Peggy J Liu, Cary L Anderson","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae044","url":null,"abstract":"Brands and retailers often offer different aesthetic versions of the same base product that vary from visually simple to visually complex. How should managers price these different aesthetic versions of the same base product? This research provides insights for such decisions through uncovering a novel consumer lay belief about the relationship between visual complexity and production costs. Consumers associate simple (vs. complex) visual aesthetics with lower production costs when evaluating different aesthetic versions of a product. This lay belief occurs in joint evaluation mode but is mitigated in separate evaluation mode. An important downstream implication of this lay belief is that consumers’ willingness to pay is lower for visually simple (vs. complex) versions. This gap in willingness to pay occurs even when consumers like both product versions or aesthetics equally, and it is only eliminated when consumers like the visually simple version substantially more than the complex version. Finally, reducing the diagnosticity of the lay belief by disclosing information that the two versions took similar amounts of production time and effort reduces the gap in willingness to pay between visually simple (vs. complex) versions.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

How Numerical Cognition Explains Ambiguity Aversion 数字认知如何解释模糊厌恶感

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae041

Marina Lenkovskaya, Steven Sweldens

{"title":"How Numerical Cognition Explains Ambiguity Aversion","authors":"Marina Lenkovskaya, Steven Sweldens","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae041","url":null,"abstract":"Consumers generally prefer precise probabilities or outcomes over imprecise ranges with the same expected value, a bias known as ‘ambiguity aversion.’ We argue that two elementary principles of numerical cognition explain great heterogeneity in this bias, affecting consumer choices in many domains where options are characterized by varying levels of uncertainty (e.g., lotteries, discounts, investment products, vaccines, etc). The first principle, the ‘compression effect,’ stipulates that consumers’ mental number lines are increasingly compressed at greater number magnitudes. This alone suffices to predict ambiguity aversion as it causes a midpoint (e.g., $40) to be perceived as closer to the upper bound of a range (e.g., $60) compared to its lower bound (e.g., $20). Furthermore, as the compression effect distorts the mental number line especially at lower numbers, it follows that ambiguity aversion should decrease around greater numbers. The second principle, the ‘left-digit effect’ causes a range’s relative attractiveness to decrease (increase) disproportionately with every left-digit transition in its lower (upper) bound, thus increasing (decreasing) ambiguity aversion. Due to the overall compression effect, the impact of the left-digit effect increases at greater numbers. We present 34 experiments (N = 10634), to support the theory’s predictions and wide applicability.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141568579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Relational Gifting: Conceptual Frameworks and an Agenda for a New Generation of Research 关系赠与：新一代研究的概念框架和议程

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae042

Michelle F Weinberger, Ernest Baskin, Kunter Gunasti

{"title":"Relational Gifting: Conceptual Frameworks and an Agenda for a New Generation of Research","authors":"Michelle F Weinberger, Ernest Baskin, Kunter Gunasti","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae042","url":null,"abstract":"Relational gifts are given among known social connections and are oriented towards relationship work and care. An abundance of gifting research over the past 50 years has focused on gift selection and reception, most recently on variables driving mismatches between what givers and recipients think make good gifts. That work lays an essential foundation. However, important opportunities remain to deepen understandings by broadening the focus to view gifting as a relational, social, and often longitudinal process that is intertwined within evolving social and cultural contexts. This paper conceptualizes three under-researched areas of opportunity on relational gifting: 1) understanding the evolving and contextualized experience of a gift in recipients’ lives, 2) tracing the gift circuit, the dynamics of gifting within social relationships over time, and 3) mapping relational gifting as a dynamic gift system that reflects and reinforces social structure and networks of care. Together, these three areas present important ground for future psychological, sociological, and anthropological consumer research that deepens understanding of when, how, and why relational gifts matter and the relational work that these gifts enable. Ultimately, the goal of this paper is to set an agenda for a new generation of relational gifting research.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141577336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Why and How Consumers Perform Online Reviewing Differently 消费者为何以及如何以不同方式进行在线评论

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae040

Gwarlann de Kerviler, Catherine Demangeot, Pierre-Yann Dolbec

{"title":"Why and How Consumers Perform Online Reviewing Differently","authors":"Gwarlann de Kerviler, Catherine Demangeot, Pierre-Yann Dolbec","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae040","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewing products and services is a widespread consumer activity in which millions engage. Why and how do consumers review differently from one another? Prior work assumes that consumers commonly understand what reviewing is. Consequently, it attributes differences in reviewing to individual variations in psychological, motivational, and sociodemographic characteristics, consumption experiences, and expertise. This central assumption is problematic because it fails to consider that differences in how consumers understand reviewing may explain why they approach and perform reviewing differently. To address this gap, we analyze a large qualitative data set composed of reviews and interviews with their authors. Our insights complement prior work by theorizing the sociocultural shaping of reviewing. We answer why consumers review differently by inductively theorizing the concept of reviewing orientation—a cultural model comprising a set of interconnected characteristics that shapes how consumers review and translates into a distinct reviewer voice—a reviewer’s standpoint expressed within a review. We answer how consumers review differently by developing three reviewing orientations: communal sharing, systemic evaluation, and competitive punditry. Finally, we discuss the transferability of the findings, the role of institutional dynamics in reviewing, and recommendations for online review platforms and marketers.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries? 消费者对干预党外初选的广告有何反应？

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae039

Mohamed A Hussein, Courtney Lee, S Christian Wheeler

{"title":"How Do Consumers React to Ads That Meddle in Out-Party Primaries?","authors":"Mohamed A Hussein, Courtney Lee, S Christian Wheeler","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae039","url":null,"abstract":"In 2022, Democrats spent $53 million on ads helping far-right candidates win Republican primaries. Paying for ads that support far-right candidates, the reasoning went, could help Democrats win in the general elections because it is easier to beat extreme than moderate candidates. In the current research, we ask: how do consumers react to the use of “meddle ads”? On the one hand, because of rising levels of polarization, consumers might be accepting, or even supportive, of meddle ads. On the other hand, because meddle ads might come across as unethical and risky, consumers might be averse to their use. Across seven main studies and ten supplemental studies (N = 7,740) using multiple empirical approaches—including conjoint analysis, vignette studies, incentive-compatible donation studies, and analysis of online comments using human coders and NLP tools—we find that consumers are averse to the use of meddle ads. This aversion is driven by three factors: concerns about the character of the candidate, outcome-related risk (losing elections), and system-related risk (losing trust in democracy). These findings contribute to research on political marketing, provide practical guidance for marketers around meddle ads, and identify a novel type of risk perceptions with implications for consumer behavior research.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Digital Therapy for Negative Consumption Experiences: The Impact of Emotional and Rational Reviews on Review Writers 负面消费体验的数字疗法：情感和理性评论对评论作者的影响

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae037

Alisa Yinghao Wu, Vicki G Morwitz

引用次数: 0

Identities without Products: When the Preference for Self-Linked Products Weakens 没有产品的身份：当对自我关联产品的偏好减弱时

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae038

Liad Weiss, Robin J Tanner

{"title":"Identities without Products: When the Preference for Self-Linked Products Weakens","authors":"Liad Weiss, Robin J Tanner","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae038","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Extant literature and common marketing practices converge around the idea that stronger self-links to a brand and its products lead to increased brand loyalty. In this paper, we challenge this conventional notion by revealing situations where the preference for self-linked brands diminishes, despite the self-links remaining unchanged. We introduce a key distinction between two types of consumer identities based on whether identity expression relies on specific products: product-dependent (e.g., chef) and product-independent (e.g., foodie). Our theory posits that self-links to products exert less influence on preference when a product-independent identity is prominent. Across five studies examining consumer leisure identities, we find that priming a product-independent (vs. product-dependent) identity reduces preference for self-linked products/brands. Interestingly, it can also enhance preference for negatively self-linked (dissociative) products/brands among materialistic consumers. In a sixth experiment and a real-world Facebook study, we illustrate that the extent to which consumers’ identity is chronically product-independent can be assessed either directly or indirectly from social media interests, allowing for more effective targeting of brand-switching appeals. Adding to the literature on the symbolic role of products in identity expression, our research uniquely investigates the functional role of products in identity expression and its profound impact on product/brand preference.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141348832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Using Cultural Repertoires during Unsettled Times 在动荡时期使用文化汇辑

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae036

Ye (Nicole) Yang, Julie L Ozanne, Marcus Phipps

{"title":"Using Cultural Repertoires during Unsettled Times","authors":"Ye (Nicole) Yang, Julie L Ozanne, Marcus Phipps","doi":"10.1093/jcr/ucae036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae036","url":null,"abstract":"This research draws on the theory of culture in action, which explains how consumers selectively mobilize their cultural repertoires to understand and solve daily problems. Contemporary life, however, is increasingly unsettled, challenging the adequacy of consumers’ repertoires and how they use existing institutional cultural resources. This qualitative study identifies four ways that consumers use their cultural repertoires and institutional resources during unsettled times. Formulaic uses are when consumers mobilize familiar cultural tools and existing resources to resettle. Versatile uses are when consumers develop new cultural tools to transform while working within demanding institutional resources. Freewheeling uses are when consumers mobilize familiar cultural tools for play but rework institutional resources to be less demanding. Finally, troubleshooting uses are when consumers extend their existing cultural tools to suffice but reject institutional resources. These varied uses of culture capture how consumers either mobilize or develop their cultural repertoires and institutional resources to serve different ends. This study provides a more dynamic, pragmatic, and nuanced explanation of how consumers summon culture to solve problems during unsettled times. A conceptual model explains this process, and the discussion highlights the theoretical contributions.","PeriodicalId":15555,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Consumer Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The Discomfort of Things! Tidying-up and Decluttering in Consumers’ Homes 物品的不适感！消费者家中的整理和杂物清理

IF 7.2 1区管理学

Journal of Consumer Research Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucae034

Johanna Gollnhofer, Kushagra Bhatnagar, B. Manke

引用次数: 0