{"title":"Research online and purchase offline: The disruptive impact of consumers' online information on offline sales interaction","authors":"You Li, Lixiao Geng, Yaping Chang, Peng Ning","doi":"10.1002/mar.21902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21902","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Retailers hire salespeople in physical stores to boost revenue by influencing consumer decision‐making. However, the Internet provides consumers with a variety of online product information before they enter the physical store, and this rich online information reduces their willingness to interact with offline salespeople. Using regulatory focus theory, we explore why well‐informed consumers avoid sales interactions and explore strategies for salespeople to mitigate this negative effect. Across three studies, we show that high consumer informedness induces a heightened prevention focus that causes consumers to avoid sales interactions to control the decision‐making process by themselves (Studies 1 and 2). This effect can be alleviated when salespeople provide consumers with currently available information rather than additional information (Study 3). This research contributes to the literature on consumer informedness, regulatory focus theory, and research on promotional information types and provides guidance for retailers' sales interactions.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135740686","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}
Eunyoung (Christine) Sung, Dai‐In Danny Han, Yung Kyun Choi, Brian Gillespie, Anja Couperus, Marc Koppert
{"title":"Augmented digital human vs. human agents in storytelling marketing: Exploratory electroencephalography and experimental studies","authors":"Eunyoung (Christine) Sung, Dai‐In Danny Han, Yung Kyun Choi, Brian Gillespie, Anja Couperus, Marc Koppert","doi":"10.1002/mar.21898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21898","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As the fourth industrial revolution unfolds and the use of digital humans becomes more commonplace, understanding digital humans' potential to replace real human interaction or enhance it, particularly in storytelling marketing contexts, is becoming evermore important. To promote interaction and increase the entertainment value of technology‐enhanced storytelling marketing, brands have begun to explore the use of augmented digital humans as storytelling agents. In this article, we examine the effectiveness of leveraging advanced technologies and delivering messages via digital humans in storytelling advertisements. In Study 1, we investigate the effectiveness of narrative transportation on behavioral responses after exposure to an interactive augmented reality mobile advertisement with a digital human storyteller. In Study 2, we compare how consumers respond to augmented digital human versus real human storytelling advertisements after conducting an exploratory neurophysiological electroencephalography study. The findings show that both types of agents promote narrative transportation when the story fits the product well. Moreover, a digital human perceived as more human‐like elicits stronger positive consumer responses, suggesting an effective new approach to storytelling marketing.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739848","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":"A systematic review on political ideology and persuasion","authors":"Aylin Cakanlar, Katherine White","doi":"10.1002/mar.21894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21894","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Increasing political polarization in the United States and worldwide necessitates understanding of the key factors that can help shift different political groups' attitudes and behaviors regarding vital issues. In this article, we provide a systematic review of the research literature on political ideology and persuasion. By organizing the literature at three levels (self, social, and system), we propose an organizing framework for thinking about various persuasive factors that can encourage attitude and behavior change among conservatives and liberals. Our review highlights that considering the three levels at which persuasion operates can guide future theory and research, as well as provide practical tools for marketers and policymakers wishing to decrease ideological extremity and foster attitude and behavior change across both sides of the political divide.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980403","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":"It's the smallness that counts: Consumer preferences for small versus large companies' products","authors":"Elze Uzdavinyte, Justina Baršytė, Zivile Kaminskiene","doi":"10.1002/mar.21900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21900","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Previous research has repeatedly suggested that small (vs. large) companies have a higher appeal to consumers, yet the underlying mechanisms explaining why such an effect occurs remain understudied. Through four experiments, we show that company size cues affect consumer preferences; products originating from small companies are perceived to be healthier than those from large companies, with a downstream positive effect on willingness to buy. Specifically, small (vs. large) company size cues increase the perception of product safety, in turn increasing the perception of product healthiness. This effect is more pronounced for individuals who are more sensitive to safety signals, scoring high on sensitivity to pathogen disgust. Our findings provide managerially relevant insights and show that additional safety‐related signals have the potential to counteract this seemingly inherent disadvantage for large companies.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982462","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":"When and why signaling frontline employee inexperience can prove to be an asset: Effects on consumer forgiveness for service failure","authors":"Michaël Flacandji, Julien Cusin, Renaud Lunardo","doi":"10.1002/mar.21897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21897","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The extant literature on service failure focuses mainly on how to recover from such incidents. However, companies can act before a service failure occurs to mitigate its negative effects. Building on signaling theory, we adopt a mixed‐method approach based on five studies using different types of analyses (textual and content analysis, and multivariate analysis) to investigate the effect of signaling frontline employee inexperience on customer responses to service failure due to an error committed by an employee. Five studies provide evidence that highlighting inexperience—either informally (through a conversation) or formally (through an in‐training badge)—can act as a signal that prompts customers to be more forgiving toward frontline employees, and such consumer forgiveness then serves as an underlying mechanism to explain repatronage intention. This research also tests and explores the boundary conditions for the effectiveness of the inexperience signal. Our findings have various implications for professionals showing how useful it can be to signal the inexperience of a frontline employee who makes an error that leads to a service failure to be given a second chance, and how certain precautions should be taken to avoid the pitfalls of such a signaling strategy.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"367 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136107584","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":"There's not much to tell: The impact of emotional resilience on negative word‐of‐mouth following service failure","authors":"Lama Lteif, Dan Rubin, Joan Ball, Cait Lamberton","doi":"10.1002/mar.21856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21856","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Consumers routinely experience service failures in their daily lives. Research regarding such service failures has primarily focused on characteristics of and actions taken by the service provider and has thus far overlooked the role that consumers' own cognitions might play in determining their behavioral responses to service failures. In particular, emotional resilience—or the ability to rebound from negative experiences (including even the most banal service failures)—has been neglected in prior research. Addressing this gap in the literature, we examine the mechanisms that highly resilient consumers use to manage the negative experience of service failures and gauge whether those mechanisms can effectively reduce negative word‐of‐mouth. Across three studies, we evince that high trait resilient individuals are less likely to engage in negative word‐of‐mouth following service failures because they spontaneously utilize cognitive reappraisal—a strategy for emotion regulation. Importantly, this research suggests that the emotion regulation strategies spontaneously adopted by high trait resilient individuals can be successfully utilized by all consumers after an external prompt. Managing consumers' emotional responses in the face of service failures is shown to have positive benefits for the firm by reducing negative word‐of‐mouth. Notably, such interventions may benefit firms even when the opportunity for a service recovery is not presented.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135657653","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":"Hedonic objects and utilitarian experiences: The overriding influence of hedonism in driving consumer happiness","authors":"Sofia Kousi, Georgios Halkias, Flora Kokkinaki","doi":"10.1002/mar.21829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21829","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The experience recommendation prescribes a disadvantage to material purchases, suggesting that spending on experiential rather than material purchases makes people happier. This study challenges this idea by examining the hedonic/utilitarian nature of purchases. The results of a qualitative study and four experiments (one preregistered) show that the happiness advantage of experiential (vs. material) purchases is contingent on pronounced hedonic properties. Our results indicate that hedonism asymmetries override the distinction between purchase type, such that there is no happiness advantage in buying experiences over material objects when purchases are equally (non)hedonic. Importantly, we find that hedonism is more instrumental for material purchases and that hedonic materials are equally effective as experiential purchases, altogether, and even outperform utilitarian experiences in eliciting happiness. Our findings encourage consumers to focus on the properties, rather than the type, of purchases to increase purchase‐related happiness. Our results further suggest that marketers of material goods, in particular, can considerably increase customer value by using design components, product features, and brand imagery that leverage hedonic qualities.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135478817","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":"Underscoring flavor or healthiness? The effectiveness of different communication appeals in promoting local food and the moderating role of individual construal","authors":"Marco Pichierri, Alessandro M. Peluso","doi":"10.1002/mar.21837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21837","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract One way for local economies to foster sustainable development is to encourage the consumption of local food products. Thus, there is value in understanding which marketing strategies would be useful in this regard, especially in service settings such as restaurants. Through four experimental studies, the present research shows that centering a communication message on healthy (vs. tasty) properties can increase consumers' intention to promote local food products (e.g., traditional dishes prepared with local ingredients) by spreading positive word‐of‐mouth about them (Studies 1A and 1B). Yet, consumers' construal level (low [concrete mindset] vs. high [abstract mindset]) moderates this effect in such a way that the message focused on tastiness (vs. health) is more effective in enhancing word‐of‐mouth intention (Studies 2 and 3) for consumers with a concrete (vs. abstract) mindset. These findings add to scholars' understanding on how message framing and consumers' cognitive styles interact to influence consumers' intentions. Food marketers are therefore encouraged to carefully consider the focus of their communications and their interplay with the way in which individuals interpret actions or events (i.e., their construal) to develop more effective strategies for promoting local food products.","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135543200","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":"COVID-19 vaccines and anti-consumption: Understanding anti-vaxxers hesitancy.","authors":"Damien Chaney, Michael Sw Lee","doi":"10.1002/mar.21617","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mar.21617","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anti-vaccination sentiment and vaccine hesitancy are on the rise. This is unfortunate given the world's coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic response plan relies on a global vaccination program the likes of which has never been attempted. Using an anti-consumption lens, this study utilizes a qualitative approach and 53 interviews revolving around people's attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccination plan. The findings reveal that COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy comes from two major factors: stable factors and contextual factors. Stable factors refer to factors that are consistently found in anti-vaccination movements and include political and philosophical opposition. Contextual factors refer to factors that are highly dependent on the COVID-19 situation and relates to a negative benefit to risk ratio informed by information overload and the influence of marketing phenomena such as branding and country of origin effects. Finally, theoretical and managerial contributions are offered for public policymakers and social marketers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"39 1","pages":"741-754"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9015457/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47226149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collectivism fosters preventive behaviors to contain the spread of COVID-19: Implications for social marketing in public health.","authors":"Hyewon Cho, Yafei Guo, Carlos Torelli","doi":"10.1002/mar.21613","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mar.21613","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Apart from personal- and societal-level factors, we propose that collectivism also plays a role in the spread of COVID-19. Results from six studies using both secondary datasets and laboratory experiments conducted in two different countries demonstrate that collectivism is: (a) negatively associated with the spread of COVID-19 and (b) positively associated with the self-importance/expectation to engage in widely publicized behaviors to prevent the spread of the disease, as well as with greater likelihood to vaccinate against COVID-19. Finally, the higher likelihood of people high (vs. low) in collectivism to engage in preventive behaviors is driven by their belief that others consider it important to engage in such behaviors. The effects were robust and emerged by measuring collectivism both at the country level and at the individual level. We conclude by proposing features of public health campaigns likely to elicit compliance behavior to control the spread of COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":48373,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Marketing","volume":"39 1","pages":"694-700"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9015240/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45495591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}