When an ad's influence is beyond our conscious control: Perceptual and conceptual fluency effects caused by incidental ad exposure
When an ad's influence is beyond our conscious control: Perceptual and conceptual fluency effects caused by incidental ad exposure
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DOI:
10.1086/209548
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发表时间:
1999-06-01
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Shapiro, S
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作者:
Shapiro, S
Four studies were conducted to determine the level of processing that occurs during incidental ad exposure and the extent to which effects of such processing are driven by unconscious influences. Studies I and 2 indicate that the addition of semantically related product information in an ad facilitates activation of the product concept in memory. As a result, the advertised product is more likely to be included in a stimulus-based consideration set even when the perceptual features of the product under consideration do not match the features of the product depiction in the ad. These results are consistent with conceptual fluency arising from a semantic analysis that occurs during incidental ad exposure. Studies 3 and 4 indicate that when an ad is devoid of other product-related information (i.e., when it simply depicts a product by itself), processing is limited to a simple feature analysis. The effect of this analysis on consideration set judgment is found when the shape of the advertised product is unfamiliar, and the perceptual features of the product under consideration match those of the product depiction in the ad. These results are consistent with the concept of perceptual fluency. Further, all four studies provide strong evidence that the response bias caused by incidental ad exposure is clue to unconscious influences-advertised products were more likely to be included in a consideration set even when subjects were explicitly trying to avoid choosing products that were depicted in the ads.