{"title":"“Unattractive = natural”: How explicit and implicit beliefs jointly affect consumer purchase of unattractive produce","authors":"Yixin Niu, Yanfen You, Yaxuan Ran, Jiani Liu","doi":"10.1002/mar.21909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21909","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract To reduce the waste of aesthetically unappealing yet safe produce, marketers and policymakers have attempted to associate such produce with the concept of “naturalness” (i.e., establishing the “unattractive = natural” belief), thereby increasing its appeal to consumers. However, research findings conflict regarding the effectiveness of this approach. To reconcile these inconsistencies, the present research suggests that two types of “unattractive = natural” beliefs—explicit and implicit—collectively influence consumer purchase of unattractive produce. Through one field and two lab experiments using two methods to measure implicit beliefs (i.e., the Implicit Association Test and word‐embedding method) and consumer purchases (i.e., actual product choices and a Likert scale), we found that consumers with a high level of incongruence between explicit and implicit “unattractive = natural” beliefs exhibit a greater preference for unattractive produce than those with a low level of such incongruence. This occurs because the incongruence between implicit and explicit beliefs prompts elaborative thinking about the naturalness of unattractive produce, thus alleviating consumer avoidance. Our undertaking contributes to the existing literature on consumer purchase of unattractive produce by examining explicit and implicit beliefs. It also offers valuable insights into leveraging implicit measurement techniques to mitigate food waste.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To be precise (imprecise) in utilitarian (hedonic) contexts: Examining the influence of numerical precision on consumer reactions to artificial intelligence‐based recommendations","authors":"Hong Zhu, Zimeng Zhu, Yilin Ou, Ya Yin","doi":"10.1002/mar.21904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21904","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The precision of artificial intelligence (AI)‐generated information has been suggested in the past as a method of nudging consumers' evaluations and intentions, but little is known about whether such effects are also context‐sensitive. Based on four studies, we find a matched condition under which consumers are more likely to make a positive response when precise (imprecise) numbers presented by AI recommenders are used in a utilitarian (hedonic) consumption context (Study 1). Additionally, we show that consumer conceptual fluency also mediates this matching effect on consumer purchase decision‐making (Studies 2). We further show the matching effect is moderated by the recommender type (Study 3) and consumer lay beliefs about the AI and human recommenders (Study 4). This study shows that when consumers' lay belief changes from “AI performs objective tasks well” and “Human performs subjective tasks well” to “AI performs subjective tasks well” and “Human performs objective tasks well,” it can change the difference in the matching relationship between human and AI recommenders.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135959460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felix Friederich, Jan‐Hinrich Meyer, Jorge Matute, Ramon Palau‐Saumell
{"title":"CRYPTO‐MANIA: How fear‐of‐missing‐out drives consumers’ (risky) investment decisions","authors":"Felix Friederich, Jan‐Hinrich Meyer, Jorge Matute, Ramon Palau‐Saumell","doi":"10.1002/mar.21906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21906","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The cryptocurrencies (cryptos) market has undergone rapid development in the last years. Although this market is highly volatile and has frequently crashed, consumers show continued interest as well as widespread possession of such assets. Therefore, this research explores the mechanisms underlying consumers’ engagement in crypto trading. The results of five studies including eight experiments reveal that externally evoked fear‐of‐missing‐out (FOMO) appeals influence consumers’ investment decisions and that this effect is mediated by affective processes and moderated by impulsivity. The results further demonstrate that FOMO appeals lead consumers to repeated investment decisions, even if prior losses have been incurred. Finally, the findings suggest that the effects of FOMO can be mitigated via communication strategies (i.e., fear messages). The results provide notable implications for academics and policymakers concerned with consumers’ crypto engagement.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"339 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136153383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Ruiz‐Equihua, Jaime Romero, Luis V. Casaló, Sandra María Correia Loureiro
{"title":"Smart speakers and customer experience in service contexts","authors":"Daniel Ruiz‐Equihua, Jaime Romero, Luis V. Casaló, Sandra María Correia Loureiro","doi":"10.1002/mar.21907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21907","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The use of artificial intelligence‐based devices, such as smart speakers, is rising in frontline services, as such devices can perform several tasks for customers. However, little is known about customer responses to interactions with smart speakers that occur during service encounters. This research encompasses three studies intended to enhance our currently scarce knowledge of how customers respond to interactions with smart speakers during service encounters. Focusing on the hospitality industry, the first study shows that smart speakers improve evaluations of the hotels that use them in terms of customer ratings and positive affects. The second study demonstrates that automated social presence and psychological ownership feelings are key mechanisms that explain the development of valuable customer responses. The third study, which uses virtual reality, suggests that better actual behaviors are exhibited by people who appreciate the incorporation of smart speakers into services. Thus, the findings indicate that smart speakers improve service experiences, especially if used to carry out hedonic tasks usually performed by employees.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136236071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monin Techawachirakul, Abhishek Pathak, Kosuke Motoki, Gemma Anne Calvert
{"title":"Negative halo effects of sustainable packaging","authors":"Monin Techawachirakul, Abhishek Pathak, Kosuke Motoki, Gemma Anne Calvert","doi":"10.1002/mar.21891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21891","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract More firms are adopting “green packaging” due to regulatory and environmental concerns. The alcoholic beverage industry has recently joined the lobby and major producers have introduced creative paper bottles for their alcoholic drinks. Previous research on sustainable labeling (e.g., eco‐friendly labels) has shown the positive halo effect where sustainable labeling induces positive evaluations. In contrast, our research aims to reveal the negative halo effects of sustainable packaging in the case of paper‐bottled alcoholic beverages. Across three studies, we explore consumers' perceptions toward alcoholic drinks packed in innovative paper bottles. Studies 1–2 demonstrate that consumers hold inferior expectations (i.e., sensory attributes, price, and purchase likelihood) toward alcoholic beverages packed in paper bottles. Study 3 demonstrates that the enforced messaging and attractive packaging can mitigate the negative halo effect for self‐consumption and gifting. These findings contribute to the literature on sustainable packaging, especially in the novel space of paper‐bottled alcoholic drinks.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136309054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strike while the iron is hot: Temperature affects consumers' appetite for risk","authors":"Josh Lundberg, Adam Craig, John Peloza","doi":"10.1002/mar.21905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21905","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many consumer decisions—from trying a new brand to trying a new recipe—involve risk. However, although consumers' appetite for risk has received over 50 years of investigation, the impact of situational variables (e.g., atmospherics) on consumer decision‐making involving risk remains relatively unexplored. To address this gap, the current work examines the influence of temperature, a ubiquitous situational influence, on consumers' inclination toward risk. Across four studies, we find evidence for a positive relationship between temperature and risk‐taking, using multiple operationalizations of temperature and measurements of risk. Evidence suggests that this effect is driven by warm temperature engaging the Behavioral Activation System, which in turn heightens risk‐taking.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135016225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One is the loneliest number… Two can be as bad as one. The influence of AI Friendship Apps on users' well‐being and addiction","authors":"Hannah R. Marriott, Valentina Pitardi","doi":"10.1002/mar.21899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21899","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although technology advancements provide opportunities for social interactions, reports show that people have never felt so alone and are increasingly adopting AI friendship and therapy‐related well‐being apps. By adopting a mixed‐method approach (i.e., netnography and quantitative survey), we investigate the extent AI friendship apps enhance users' well‐being—and to what extent they further exacerbate issues of using technology for social needs. Findings show that users of AI friendship apps report well‐being benefits from the relationship with the AI friend and, at the same time, find themselves being addicted to using the app. Specifically, we show that users' loneliness and fear of judgment, together with AI sentience and perceived well‐being gained, increase addiction to the app, while AI ubiquity and warmth reduce it. Taken together, the results show that despite the intended positive purpose of the apps, the negative effects that AI friendship apps have on well‐being may be much greater.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135153689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brittney C. Bauer, Brad D. Carlson, Mark J. Arnold
{"title":"Deciphering consumer commitment: Exploring the dual influence of self‐brand and self‐group relationships","authors":"Brittney C. Bauer, Brad D. Carlson, Mark J. Arnold","doi":"10.1002/mar.21901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21901","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Consumer‐brand relationships are highly valued as brand‐committed consumers are thought to deliver many positive outcomes for affiliated brands. However, in addition to connections between individuals and brands, consumer‐brand relationships also involve relationships between individuals and other brand users. Little attention has been given to the potential consequences associated with commitment to other brand users as compared to the brand itself. Therefore, our framework establishes two distinct types of consumer‐brand relationships (i.e., self‐brand relationships vs. self‐group relationships ) that differentially influence brand commitment versus group commitment, leading to contrasting effects on both desirable and undesirable brand outcomes. Specifically, our studies illuminate that while brand commitment is largely associated with favorable brand‐related outcomes, group commitment does not protect against brand switching and is negatively related to willingness to pay price premiums and positive word‐of‐mouth. Our main contribution is uncovering how consumer‐brand relationships face tradeoffs between brand and group attachments, whereby commitment provides both conditional benefits as well as unintended consequences.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135304903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matteo Borghi, Marcello M. Mariani, Rodrigo P. Vega, Jochen Wirtz
{"title":"The impact of service robots on customer satisfaction online ratings: The moderating effects of rapport and contextual review factors","authors":"Matteo Borghi, Marcello M. Mariani, Rodrigo P. Vega, Jochen Wirtz","doi":"10.1002/mar.21903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21903","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent research has established a positive relationship between the use of service robots powered by artificial intelligence in hospitality firms and customer satisfaction online ratings, a particularly important form of electronic word of mouth. However, it is not clear if and how this relationship is augmented or diminished by moderating factors. In this study, we examined four potential moderators by using machine learning and natural language processing techniques to analyze 20,166 online reviews of hotels that had implemented service robots. We had four key findings. First, a positive service robot‐satisfaction rating relationship was further enhanced by improved customer‐service robot rapport during the service encounter. Second, higher customer effort focused on service robots in a review reduced the service robot‐satisfaction rating relationship. Third, posting reviews using a mobile device (vs. other devices) showed higher satisfaction ratings. Finally, customers' prior experience in writing online reviews was unrelated to the service robot‐satisfaction rating relationship. Taken together, these results suggest that service robots should be designed to be interactive and encourage customers to build rapport, for example, by service robots engaging in conversational flows. Moreover, customers should be nudged to use their mobile devices to post timely reviews on their positive human–robot interactions.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135306263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karine Charry, Ingrid Poncin, Avreliane Kullak, Linda D. Hollebeek
{"title":"Gamification's role in fostering user engagement with healthy food‐based digital content","authors":"Karine Charry, Ingrid Poncin, Avreliane Kullak, Linda D. Hollebeek","doi":"10.1002/mar.21892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21892","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Though digital platforms (e.g., social media) are often used to promote unhealthy, calorie‐dense foods, the dynamics characterizing consumers' engagement with healthy nutrition‐based content (e.g., as stimulated trough gamification) on these platforms remains tenuous, warranting further exploration. Addressing this gap, we deploy a qualitative field study and two experiments to show that challenge , a gamification mechanic that relies on rewarding incremental behavioral (e.g., food choice) improvements, shapes consumers' enjoyment of, and engagement with, digital healthy food‐based content. Study 1 ( n = 95) shows that challenge induces consumer enjoyment, boosting their engagement with healthy food‐related digital content. Study 2 ( n = 94) corroborates these findings by revealing a serial mediation effect of gamification‐based challenge on consumers' enjoyment of, and engagement with, healthy food‐based content. Extending Study 1, we also identify engagement's positive effect on consumers' app reuse intent. Moreover, we identify a moderating role of consumers' stage of change‐based action (i.e., readiness to act on their health), which strengthens the association of gamification‐based challenge/enjoyment. Overall, the findings substantiate gamification's role in boosting consumers' engagement with digital healthy food‐based content. We conclude by deriving pertinent implications from our analyses.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135393430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}