Taboo Advertising: Can Humor Help to Attract Attention and Enhance Recall?
Taboo Advertising: Can Humor Help to Attract Attention and Enhance Recall?
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广告禁忌:幽默能吸引注意力、增强回忆吗?
DOI:
10.2753/mtp1069-6679200404
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
Ouidade Sabri
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作者:
Ouidade Sabri
"Taboo advertising" is often seen as an effective way to attract attention and enhance recall. Drawing on arousal theory and the "taboo-superiority effect," this study questions the nature of the relationship between the level of tabooness and the achievement of those aims. Purpose-designed print advertisements manipulated levels of taboo and humor. Analysis of data collected from 180 respondents in France finds a curvilinear relationship, in which an optimum level of taboo-arousal achieves maximum attention and recall. It also finds that humor decreases perceived tabooness of objectively high-taboo advertisements. Implications for marketing communications strategy are discussed, and future research directions are suggested.