Consuming Experiential Categories
| Autor: | Adam L. Alter, Anuj K. Shah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Marketing
Economics and Econometrics Focus (computing) media_common.quotation_subject Musical Experiential learning Variety (cybernetics) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Modern art Anthropology Happiness Symphony Business and International Management Psychology Social psychology media_common Savoring |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Consumer Research. 41:965-977 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5277 0093-5301 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/677893 |
| Popis: | How do we maximize enjoyment and minimize displeasure over a variety of events? Previous research has discussed how consumers might focus on savoring individual events or distribute appealing and unappealing events across time to maximize happiness. Building on this work, the current research shows that consumers track not just individual events but also "categories" of events. Consequently, a person who visits a modern art gallery, a classic art gallery, the opera, and a symphony concert could either construe these as four distinct experiences or as two categories of experiences (art galleries and musical performances). Consumers seem to naturally consider experiential categories. For positive experiences, consumers are reluctant to choose in a way that eliminates categories, but the opposite is true for negative experiences. People may do this because eliminating categories leads to a greater subjective feeling of making progress in a hedonic experience. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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