Marketing Messaging

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Promoting Portion Downsizing By Improving Consumer Response To Percentage Cost Vs. Percentage

Marketing communication, particularly in the domain of food, frequently contains percentage information about benefit changes (e.g., 50% larger food packages) or about cost changes (e.g., 50% price Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Bhavya Mohan, Pierre Chandon, Jason Riis
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Avoiding Behavioral Resistance To Diet And Exercise Messages

People are exposed to many persuasive health messages that encourage them to become healthy in different ways. For instance, some messages encourage people to eat healthy and diet, and other messages Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Peggy J. Liu, Gavan J. Fitzsimons
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Hardening My Heart: Persuasion Knowledge And Emotion Regulation

Consumers do not passively process marketing influence attempts, but rather use persuasion schemas to interpret, resist, and reject persuasion (Campbell and Kirmani 2000; Friestad and Wright 1994). Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Nicole Verrochi Coleman, Patti Williams
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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“So Cute I Can Eat It Up”: Priming Effects Of Cute Products On Indulgent Consumption

This research examines exposure to cute products – a previously unexplored factor that might affect the extent to which consumers engage in indulgent consumption. Companies market cute products in Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Maura Scott, Gergana Y. Nenkov
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Look Who’s Talking: Linguistic Signaling In C2C And B2C Communication

Consumers and firms communicate their intentions through a variety of language uses. Instances of such language uses may be pronoun use (‘I/we will consider your complaint’), negation (‘It Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Gaby Schellekens, Ann Kronrod
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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