The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study

This paper proposes a research framework on the antecedents of consumers? skepticism toward advertising and its related outcome variables; including inferences of manipulative intent, attitudes toward the advertisement and product judgment. The scope of the study will be limited to the industry of b...

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Main Author: Tien, Cheryl
Format: Working Paper
Published: School of Marketing, Curtin Business School 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7126
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description This paper proposes a research framework on the antecedents of consumers? skepticism toward advertising and its related outcome variables; including inferences of manipulative intent, attitudes toward the advertisement and product judgment. The scope of the study will be limited to the industry of beauty products, due to the myriad of dubious beauty ad claims. Consumer involvement and risk are also discussed as possible background variables for the framework. The paper will attempt to bridge a number of gaps inherent to consumer skepticism toward advertising, including validating the consumer susceptibly toward interpersonal influences scale and marketplace knowledge scale, in the context of mature target audiences and their degree of ad skepticism and empirically verify Obermiller and Spangenberg's (1998) suggestion of high skeptics infer high inferences of manipulative intent. The framework is built on the persuasion knowledge model and a conceptual model is used to explain the various relationships, leading to a series of hypotheses. This research provides implications for policy makers, strategists, advertisers and planners.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-71262017-01-30T10:57:47Z The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study Tien, Cheryl attitudes toward advertisement manipulative intent product judgement skepticism This paper proposes a research framework on the antecedents of consumers? skepticism toward advertising and its related outcome variables; including inferences of manipulative intent, attitudes toward the advertisement and product judgment. The scope of the study will be limited to the industry of beauty products, due to the myriad of dubious beauty ad claims. Consumer involvement and risk are also discussed as possible background variables for the framework. The paper will attempt to bridge a number of gaps inherent to consumer skepticism toward advertising, including validating the consumer susceptibly toward interpersonal influences scale and marketplace knowledge scale, in the context of mature target audiences and their degree of ad skepticism and empirically verify Obermiller and Spangenberg's (1998) suggestion of high skeptics infer high inferences of manipulative intent. The framework is built on the persuasion knowledge model and a conceptual model is used to explain the various relationships, leading to a series of hypotheses. This research provides implications for policy makers, strategists, advertisers and planners. 2010 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7126 School of Marketing, Curtin Business School fulltext
spellingShingle attitudes toward advertisement
manipulative intent
product judgement
skepticism
Tien, Cheryl
The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study
title The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study
title_full The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study
title_fullStr The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study
title_full_unstemmed The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study
title_short The mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study
title_sort mediating effects of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgement: a conceptual study
topic attitudes toward advertisement
manipulative intent
product judgement
skepticism
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7126