Are all out-groups created equal? Consumer identity and dissociative influence
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The impact of dissociative reference groups on negative self-brand conections, product evaluations, and choices is studied. Products associated with these groups have greater impact than out-groups in general.
Publication Name: Journal of Consumer Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0093-5301
Year: 2007
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Fact or fiction: an investigation of empathy differences in response to emotional melodramatic environment
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Consumers with high empathy give more favorable valuations to melodramatic short stories with low fictionality. Evaluations of consumers with low empathy do not differ regardless of the level of fictionality.
Publication Name: Journal of Consumer Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0093-5301
Year: 2008
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