New products are often incongruent with consumer expectations. Researchers have shown that consumers prefer moderately incongruent products, while being adverse to extremely incongruent products. Read More »
Even though advertising creativity has shown to be of importance for advertising effectiveness little research has tested it in relation to other marketing strategies. This paper explores the effects Read More »
In this research we explore consumer attitudes toward one-sided appeals that present only the negative aspects of consuming indulgent food and determine how these attitudes influence subsequent food Read More »
Marketers widely use the image of a smile to create a positive impression among consumers. The well-known interpersonal benefits of a smile could lead one to believe that a smile always conveys Read More »
Humor is a common executional tactic in advertising (Eisend 2009). Given that humor affects impression formation in interindividual settings (Greengross, Martin, and Miller 2012), we propose that Read More »