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Chapter 8Attitude Change and Interactive Communications

By Michael R. Solomon

Consumer BehaviorBuying, Having, and Being

Sixth Edition

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• What activities did Carrie engage in through the Launch CD/ROM?

• Why would Carrie perceive the commercials as “cool”?

• Why was Carrie receptive to watching commercials and market research?

• Do you think the commercials that she chose were more persuasive than random ads?

Opening Vignette: Carrie

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Changing AttitudesThrough Communication

• Persuasion:– An active attempt to change attitudes– Basic psychological principles that influence

people to change their minds or comply with a request:

•Reciprocity

•Scarcity

•Authority

•Consistency

•Liking

•Consensus

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Decisions, Decisions: Tactical Communications Options

• Who will be the source of the message?– Man, woman, child, celebrity, athlete?

• How should message be constructed?– Emphasize negative consequences?– Direct comparison with competition?– Present a fantasy?

• What media will transmit the message?– Print ad, television, door-to-door, Web site?

• What are the characteristics of the target market?– Young, old, frustrated, status-oriented?

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The Elements of Communication

• Communications Model:– Specifies that a number of elements are necessary

for communication to be achieved.• Source: Where the communication originates

• Message: Content of the message itself

• Receivers: Interpret the message

• Feedback: Must be received by the source

• Launch uses the Web to collect information from subscribers

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The Traditional Communications Model

Figure 8.1

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Launch

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An Updated View: Interactive Communications

• Permission Marketing:– Based on the idea that a marketer will be more successful in persuading

consumers who have agreed to let him or her try.

• Uses and Gratifications Theory:– Argues that consumers are an active, goal-directed audience that draws on

mass media as a resource to satisfy needs.

• Who’s In Charge of the Remote?– Technological and social developments are turning the passive consumer

into interactive “partners.”

• Levels of Interactive Response– First-order response: A product offer that directly yields a transaction.

– Second-order response: Customer feedback in response to a marketing message that is not in the form of a transaction.

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An Updated Communications Model

Figure 8.2

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The Source

• Source effects: A message will have different effects if communicated by a different source.

• Two important source characteristics:– Credibility and Attractiveness

• Source credibility: A source’s perceived expertise, objectivity, or trustworthiness.

• Sleeper effect: A process by which differences in attitude change between positive sources and less positive sources seem to get erased over time. – Dissociative cue hypothesis– Availability-valence hypothesis

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The Source (cont.)

• Building Credibility: Credibility can be enhanced if the source’s qualifications are relevant to the product.

• Source Biases:– Knowledge bias: Implies a source’s knowledge is not

accurate.– Reporting bias: When a source has the required knowledge,

but the willingness to convey it is compromised

• Hype versus Buzz: The Corporate Paradox– Corporate Paradox: The more involved a company appears

to be in the dissemination of news about its products, the less credible it becomes.

• Buzz: Word of mouth, viewed as authentic• Hype: Corporate propaganda, viewed as inauthentic

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Hype Versus Buzz

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Using Web Sites for Hype

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Source Attractiveness

• Source Attractiveness:– Refers to the source’s perceived social value

• “What is Beautiful Is Good”:– A physically attractive source tends to facilitate

attitude change.– Social adaptation perspective

• Assumes that the perceiver will weight information seen to be instrumental in forming an attitude more heavily.

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Source Attractiveness in Ads

• To stimulate demand for milk, an industry trade group tapped a huge range of celebrities to show off their milk mustaches.

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Star Power: Celebrities as Communications Sources

• Cultural meanings:– Symbolizes important categories such as status, social

class, gender, age, and personality type.– Match up hypothesis: The celebrity’s image and that of the

product are similar– Q rating (Q stands for quality) considers two factors:

• Consumers’ level of familiarity with a name• The number of respondents who indicate that a person,

program, or character is a favorite.

• Nonhuman Endorsers:– Avatar: The manifestation of a Hindu deity in superhuman

or animal form.

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Celebrity Endorsers

• Omega uses tennis star Anna Kournikova as a celebrity endorser

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• What cultural meaning does Drew Carey embody? Is he a good choice to endorse this product? Why or why not?

Discussion Question

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Avatars

• A Swedish firm called NoDNA offers its own stable of cyber models such as Tyra, who is shown here.

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The Message

• Sending The Message: – Framed: Message in the picture is strongly related

to the copy– Chunk: Visual images allow the receiver to group

information at the time of encoding

• Vividness:– Pictures and words can differ in vividness– Powerful descriptions or graphics command

attention and are more strongly embedded in memory

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Positive and Negative Effectsof Elements in TV Commercials

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Dual Component Model of Brand Attitudes

Figure 8.3

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Sending the Message

• Repetition:– Mere Exposure: People tend to like things that are

more familiar to them, even if they are not keen on them initially.

– Habituation: Consumer no longer pays attention to the stimulus because of boredom or fatigue

– Two-factor Theory: Explains the fine line between familiarity and boredom.

• Positive affect: Increases familiarity, reduces uncertainty

• Negative affect: Boredom increases with each exposure

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Two-Factor Theory

Figure 8.4

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Constructing the Argument

• One- Versus Two-Sided Arguments:– Supportive argument: Presents only positive

arguments – Two-sided message: Presents positive and negative

info

• Drawing Conclusions• Comparative Advertising:

– A strategy in which a message compares two or more recognized brands and compares them on the basis of attributes.

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Monitoring Ads

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Types of Message Appeals• Emotional Versus Rational Appeals:

– Choice depends on the nature of the product and the type of relationship that consumers have with it

– Recall of ad content tends to be better for “thinking” rather than “feeling” ads

• Sexual Appeals:– Sex draws attention to the ad but may be counterproductive

unless the product itself is related to sex

• Humorous Appeals:– Distraction: Humorous ads inhibit the consumer from

counterarguing (thinking of reasons not to agree with the message), increasing the likelihood of message acceptance

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Emotional vs. Rational

• These ads demonstrate rational versus emotional message appeals. At the time of the initial ad campaign for the new Infiniti automobiles, the ads for rival Lexus (top) emphasized design and engineering, while the ads for Infiniti (bottom) did not even show the car.

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Sexual Appeals

• An ad employing a sexual appeal.

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Humor Appeals

• This ad relies upon humor to communicate the message that skiers and snowboarders should wear helmets.

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Types of Message Appeals (cont.)

• Fear Appeals:– Emphasize the negative consequences that can

occur unless the consumer changes a behavior or an attitude

– Used mostly in social marketing contexts– Effective only when the threat is moderate and a

solution is presented– Threat: The literal content of the message– Fear: An emotional response to the message

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Fear Appeals

• Life insurance companies often use a fear appeal to motivate consumers to buy policies.

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• In this advertisement for Big Red chewing gum, what type of advertising appeal is being used?

• Is this an effective use of this type of appeal?

Discussion Question

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Types of Message Appeals (conc.)

• The Message as Art Form: Metaphors Be with You:– Metaphor: Involves placing two dissimilar objects in a

close relationship such that “A is B”– Simile: Compares two objects “A is like B”– Resonance: A form of presentation that combines a play on

words with a relevant picture• Forms of Story Presentation:

– Drama: Attempt to be experiential, involving the audience emotionally

– Lecture: A speech where the source speaks directly to the audience to inform and persuade them

– Transformational Advertising: Consumer associates the experience of product usage with some subjective sensation

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Personification

• Many products are personified by make-believe characters.

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Advertising Metaphors

• This Chinese detergent ad uses a handcuff metaphor as it urges the viewer, “Free yourself from the burden of handwash.”

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The Source vs. The Message:Sell the Steak or the Sizzle?

• Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM): – Assumes that once a customer receives a message, he or

she begins to process it.

• The Central Route to Persuasion:– The processing route taken under conditions of high

involvement– Cognitive Responses

• The Peripheral Route to Persuasion– The processing route taken under conditions of low

involvement– Peripheral Cues

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The ELM Model

Figure 8.5

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Support for the ELM

• The ELM has received a lot of research support

• Example: Typical ELM Study– Thought listing– Independent variables:

• Message-processing involvement• Argument strength• Source characteristics

– Findings:• High involvement subjects had more cognitions• High involvement subjects swayed by powerful arguments• Low involvement subjects influenced by attractive sources