Does the Valence of Online Consumer Reviews matter for Consumer Decision Making? The Moderating Role of Consumer Expertise

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Zou ◽  
Bo Yu ◽  
Yuanyuan Hao
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Consumer Reviews ◽  
Online Consumer Reviews ◽  
Consumer Expertise ◽  
Online Consumer ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals Consumer Adoption of Consumer-Created vs. Expert-Created Information: Moderating Role of Prior Product Attitude

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2024
Author(s):  
Do-Hyung Park
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Source Credibility ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Brand Attitudes ◽  
Consumer Reviews ◽  
Brand Evaluation ◽  
Online Consumer Reviews ◽  
Online Consumer ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Persuasive Effect

Today, consumer-created information such as online consumer reviews have become important and popular, playing a key role in consumer decision making. Compared with expert-created information, each piece of information is less powerful or persuasive, but their aggregation can be more credible and acceptable. This concept is called collective intelligence knowledge. This study focuses on the persuasive effect on consumer product attitudes of consumer-created information compared to expert-created information. Using source credibility and familiarity theory, the study reveals how prior brand attitudes can play a moderating role in the persuasive effect of consumer-created information and expert-created information. Specifically, this study shows how consumer-created information is more persuasive when consumers have more favorable prior brand attitudes, while expert-created information is more persuasive when consumers have less favorable prior brand attitudes. Based on the results, this study proposes practical strategies for information structure, curation, and presentation. If a company has a good-quality brand evaluation of its products, it should increase the weight of consumer-created information such as online consumer reviews. Otherwise, the company needs to first improve brand evaluation through expert-created information such as third-parties or power-blogger reviews.

Need for touch and online consumer decision making: the moderating role of emotional states

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Zheng ◽  
Faouzi Bensebaa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Consumer Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Intention To Purchase ◽  
Online Consumer ◽  
Product Judgment

PurposeWith the growth of online shopping, during which consumers are not able to touch products, there is much for researchers and marketers to learn about the underlying role of the need for touch (NFT) in driving online shopping decisions. Consumers' emotional state prior to purchase is considered a situational variable that affects their attitude and behaviour. This study explores the effects of consumers' NFT and pre-purchase emotional states on their online decision-making behaviour, examining perceived quality, confidence in product judgment and intention to purchase.Design/methodology/approachA field experiment was conducted using a scenario presenting buying a sweater as a real purchase opportunity available to participants. A convenience sample of two hundred ninety-eight university students at a university in the southeast of France was used in this study. A 2 (NFT: high/low determined by a median split) × 2 (emotional states: high/low level) analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to further examine the interaction of NFT and emotional states in consumer decision making.FindingsThe results indicate that autotelic NFT and positive emotional states experienced before shopping have an impact on consumers' decisions in relation to perceived quality, confidence in product judgment and intention to purchase. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that instrumental vs autotelic NFT affects consumer decision making, with mixed support found for negative emotional states acting as possible moderators.Originality/valueThis study advances the NFT field and leads to insights regarding online consumer purchase decision making by exploring instrumental vs autotelic NFT and pre-purchase emotional states as antecedents of consumer decisions.

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