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When Less Is More - How Making Products More Personal Can Decrease Purchase Intention

Personalization (i.e., tailoring products and services to individual consumer needs) is central to many successful businesses (Kavadias, Ladas, and Loch 2016). Research on personalization has Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Michael Schulz
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Impact Of Anthropomorphized Cute Brands On Consumer Preferences For Distinctive And

Marketers strategically use anthropomorphism (i.e., imbuing nonhuman objects with humanlike characteristics, motivations, intentions or behaviors; Puzakova, Kwak and Rocereto 2013) as a brand Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Marina A. Puzakova, Nevena T. Koukova
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Names Are The Mirrors Of The Soul: The Role Of Possessive Brand Names In Brand Evaluations

Marketing practitioners frequently rely on brand anthropomorphism (i.e., endowing brands with humanlike features (Puzakova and Kwak 2017) as an effective strategy that increases affective reactions Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Marina Puzakova, Mansur Khamitov
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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To Touch Or Not To Touch?: How Touch Influences Decision Confidence

An unfortunate reality of online shopping is that people do not have the opportunity to touch the actual products. When choosing between different options online, people often wish that they could Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Sang Kyu Park, Yang Yang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Neutral Face Of Blue: How Color Can Make Consumers Stay Sensitive

According to The Largest U.S. Charities, released by Forbes (Forbes 2017), more than half of the top 50 charities in the US use red, blue, or both in their logos. Despite this widespread use of red Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Sung-Hee W. Paik, Jiao Zhang, Aparna Sundar, Gabriele Paolacci, Gizem Yalcin
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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