Neural aspects of brand love
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2016-05
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EMAC
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English
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Brand love has been identified as a key driver for behavioral outcomes such as brand loyalty, positive WOM or price premium. While we know a great deal about the psychological aspects of brand love, we know very little about the neural ones. The purpose of this paper is to explore this. We used a 3 (positive, negative, neutral video stimuli) x 2 (strong vs. weak brand) experimental design. To assess the neural aspects, 53 participants underwent fMRI scans while watching short video clips and rated them on a
7-point bipolar scale (-3 = very negative; +3 = very positive). Our results suggest a ‘negativity bias paradox’ in contradiction findings from psychology literature (based on attitudinal data) that negative events exert greater impact on consumer behavior than positive ones. We also find evidence for a ‘strong brand paradox’ with fans of the weaker brand showing greater neural activities than fans of the stronger brand which contradicts findings from consumer behavior research.
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Brand relationships, Brand love, Neuroscience
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Cayolla, R., Fetscherin, M., Duarte, I. C., & Castelo-Branco, M. (2016). Neural Aspects of Brand Love. Comunicação apresentada na 45th EMAC Annual Conference 2016 "Marketing in the age of data" - European Marketing Academy, Oslo, 24-27 May 2016. Disponível no Repositório UPT, http://hdl.handle.net/11328/3749
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