Consumer Reactions to Animal And Human Models in Print Ads: How Animals and People in Ads Influence the Purchase-Decision Journey

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2021Keyword
AnimalAdvertisement effectiveness
Meaning transfer
Human model
Consumer gender
Animal-human relation
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01/05/2019
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For decades, animals have been widely used in advertisements, and yet little is known about the effects on consumer reactions along the entire purchase decision process. This study disentangles the effects of using animal stimuli in isolation or jointly with a human model in print advertisements. Empirical evidence is derived from 126,220 consumer evaluations of 302 actual print advertisements across 18 product categories. Animals do not only support a positive attitude change, they also influence how products integrate into consumers´ relevant set and the purchase intention by itself. By comparison, female consumers react more pronounced than their male counterparts on animal stimuli. However, it should be avoided to combine an animal stimulus with a human model to preserve a better influence over consumer reaction.Version
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Trivedi R and Teichert T (2021) Consumer Reactions to Animal And Human Models in Print Ads: How Animals and People in Ads Influence the Purchase-Decision Journey. Journal of Advertising Research. Accepted for publication.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.2501/JAR-2020-002Type
Articleae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
https://doi.org/10.2501/JAR-2020-002