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| Title: | Additivity versus attenuation : the role of culture in the resolution of information incongruity |
| Authors: | Aaker, Jennifer L.
Sengupta, Jaideep |
| Keywords: | Information incongruity
Consumers
Cultural psychology
Individualist culture
Collectivist culture
Product evaluations
Cultural differences |
| Issue Date: | Jan-1998 |
| Citation: | Marketing Working Paper Series ; MKTG 98.109 |
| Abstract: | Past research on dual process models of persuasion has documented that, when faced with incongruity between attribute and source information, consumers tend to form product evaluations by attenuating the less diagnostic (source) information and relying solely on the more diagnostic (attribute) information. The current research suggests that this way of resolving incongruity may be culture specific. In Experiment 1, we draw on research in cultural psychology to demonstrate that while members of an individualist culture tend to follow the attenuation strategy described above, members of a collectivist culture tend to follow an additive strategy wherein both source and attribute information impact product evaluations. In Experiments 2 and 3, we provide further support for the proposed psychological mechanism underlying these results, and identify contexts under which these cultural differences are diminished. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/915 |
| Appears in Collections: | MARK Working Papers
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