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Chapter 8
Attitudes & Persuasive Communications
MKT201- CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Learning Objectives
Relates to rewards
and punishments
Expresses consumer’s
values or self-concept
UTILITARIAN VALUE-EXPRESSIVE
FUNCTION: FUNCTION:
EGO-DEFENSIVE
KNOWLEDGE
FUNCTION:
FUNCTION:
Protect ourselves from
Need for order, structure,
external threats
or meaning
or internal feelings
ABC
beliefs a model person’s
consumer has intentions to do
about an something with
Cognition Behavior regard to an
attitude object
attitude object
FOOT-IN-THE-DOOR TECHNIQUE
Consumer is more likely to comply with a request if he
has first agreed to comply with a smaller request
LOW-BALL TECHNIQUE
Person is asked for a small favor and is informed after
agreeing to it that it will be very costly.
DOOR-IN-THE-FACE TECHNIQUE
Person is first asked to do something extreme (which he
refuses), then asked to do something smaller.
Credibility Attractiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-lUWM3nDYM
Should the argument (in the ads) draw conclusions or should the
marketer merely present the facts and let the consumer arrive at
his decision?
Consumers who make their own inferences instead of having
ideas sppon-fed to them will form stronger, more accessible
attitudes.
Having the conclusion ambiguous increases the chance that the
consumer will not form the desired atttude.
The answer depends on the connsumer’s motivation to process
the ad and the complexity of the arguments.
If the message is personally relevant, people will pay attention to it and
spontaneously form inferences.
If the arguments are hard to follow of consumers lack the motivation to
follow, it’s safer for the ad to draw conclusions.
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Comparative Advertising
Sex Appeals
Humorous Appeals
Fear Appeals