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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020

Love at First Glance but Not After Deep Consideration: The Impact of Sexually Appealing Advertising on Product Preferences.

Fengpei Hu, Qingyuan Wu, Yiwei Li, Weijie Xu, Lei Zhao, Qingzhou Sun

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors.

Fengpei HuSchool of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Qingyuan WuSchool of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Yiwei LiSchool of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Weijie XuSchool of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Lei ZhaoSchool of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
Qingzhou SunSchool of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In advertising studies, the impact of sexually appealing advertisements (hereafter "ads") on consumers' product preferences is highly controversial. This paper explores (1) how such ads affect consumers' product preferences at the gazing stage (initial stage of exposure to the ad) and evaluation stage (final product preference), and (2) which type of product (utilitarian vs. hedonic) is more suited to such ads. We used an electroencephalogram to record participants' product preferences at the gazing stage and self-reported product preferences at the evaluation stage. The results indicated that participants preferred ads with high sex appeal at the gazing stage and ads with low sex appeal at the evaluation stage. Further, compared to utilitarian products, hedonic products were more suited to sexually appealing ads. The findings suggest that the effect of such ads on consumers' product preferences varies depending on their cognitive stage and the type of product advertised.

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EEGevaluation stagegazing stagehedonic productproduct preferencesexually appealing adsutilitarian product

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PMID32547359
PMCPMC7273180

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