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Title: | Don’t surprise me : how social relationships shape consumers’ attitudes toward probabilistic selling | Authors: | Fan, L S Jiang, Y |
Issue Date: | Jul-2018 | Source: | Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, July 2018, v. 3, no. 3, p. 440-450 | Abstract: | Although probabilistic selling has been widely used as a tool for retailing and sales promotion, when and how it should be used has seldom been investigated. Contributing to our knowledge on this important topic, the current research examines how and why consumers’ social relationships influence their attitudes toward probabilistic selling. Four experiments reveal that socially excluded consumers exhibit less favorable attitudes toward probabilistic selling than do their peers who do not feel excluded. This effect is mediated by a thwarted sense of personal control following social exclusion, and the effect diminishes when vivid information about the probabilistic offer is provided. This research offers rich practical implications for retailers in terms of how to strengthen experiential shopping and improve results in consumption activities through probabilistic selling. | Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | Journal: | Journal of the Association for Consumer Research | ISSN: | 2378-1815 | EISSN: | 2378-1823 | DOI: | 10.1086/698328 | Rights: | © 2018 the Association for Consumer Research. All rights reserved. The following publication Fan, L. S., & Jiang, Y. (2018). Don’t surprise me: How social relationships shape consumers’ attitudes toward probabilistic selling. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 3(3), 440-450 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/698328 |
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