Using Decoy Effects to Influence an Online Brand Choice: The Role of Price–Quality Trade-Offs

Autor: Huei-Chen Hsu, Wen-Liang Liu
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 14:235-239
ISSN: 2152-2723
2152-2715
DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2009.0262
Popis: This research aims to investigate decoy effects on online brand choices. To assess the influence of decoys, we test decoy effects on three constructs—product involvement, judgment conditions, and decoy conditions—within an online experiment. A survey of 635 Internet users and a 2 × 2 × 3 ANOVA between-subjects experimental design is used to guide the research design and the systematic analysis procedure. A major finding of this study is that a standard decoy seems to have a significant effect on an advertised (target) brand for high-involvement products; from the survey, it is also apparent that competitors can also use inferior decoys to increase brand preference for low-involvement products.
Databáze: OpenAIRE