As an illustrative example of a country facing the financial crisis, the study employs Greece as a case in point for the examination of emotional advertising messages aired during the 2012 election Read More »
In The Experience Economy, Pine and Gilmore (1999) suggest that service firms can use humor to create a competitive edge. A humorous approach to provision has been discussed in services as disparate Read More »
As defined by Cacioppo and Petty (1982), need for cognition (NFC) refers to individuals’ tendency of engaging in effortful thinking. Tenets of dual process theory invoke that low NFC individuals Read More »
Humor is a psychological response characterized by the positive emotion of amusement, the appraisal that something is funny, and the tendency to laugh (Martin 2007; McGraw et al. 2012; Veatch 1998). Read More »
The rising obesity epidemic (Flegal, Carroll, Kit, and Ogden 2012) arouses consumers’ healthy eating concerns and motivates food manufactures to improve the nutritional content of their products Read More »