To buy or how much to buy? Partition dependence in purchase-quantity decisions
Autor: | Nader T. Tavassoli, Matteo Visentin |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Zdroj: | Marketing Letters. 33:177-188 |
ISSN: | 1573-059X 0923-0645 |
Popis: | Four studies demonstrate that people are more likely to buy (but not to buy more) when directly asked how much to buy in response to a set of purchase quantities (0, 1, 2 … *n*) than when first asked whether to buy in response to a seemingly innocuous yes/no purchase-interest question. This finding is explained in terms of response-scale partitioning. A purchase-quantity scale has a single negative (0) and multiple (n) positive response options. In contrast, a dichotomous yes/no purchase-interest question has an equal proportion of negative (“no”) and positive (“yes”) response options, the latter of which subsumes all positive quantity options into one partition. Ascertaining purchase interest using a single negative and multiple positive response options (“No”, “Mildly”, “Somewhat”, “Likely”, “Very”, and “Definitely”) eliminated the effect. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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