Publicity about Athlete Endorsers Affects Responses to Ads via Motivational Activation
Sport Marketing Quarterly.
Abstract: This research addresses how positive and negative publicity about athlete endorsers influences motivational mechanisms (appetitive and aversive) underlying cognitive and affective processing and evaluation to ads. Participants viewed an ad for a soft drink brand that featured an athlete endorser while psychophysiological measures of cognition, emotion, and arousal were collected. Each ad was preceded by a news story that contained either positive or negative information about the athlete’s off-field behavior. Results indicate that cognition and arousal were enhanced in response to ads paired with negative news stories compared to ads paired with positive news stories. Findings suggest that aversive motivational activation elicited by the negative news stories transfers to processing and evaluation of the ads.
I laugh at your pain: Effects of violation of social norms and affect on evaluation of ads that are both humorous and violent
Alexandra Frank (Ph.D. student), Glenna Read, Geoff L.Duncan (PhD student), Weinberger, M. G., & Gulas, C. S. (to be presented 2023). “I laugh at your pain: Effects of violation of […]
Disclosure-Driven Recognition of Native Advertising: A Test of Two Competing Mechanisms
Eline Brussee, Eva Van Reijmersdal, Nathaniel Evans, and Bart Wojdynski (forthcoming), “Disclosure-Driven Recognition of Native Advertising: A Test of Two Competing Mechanisms,” Journal of Interactive Advertising Abstract: This study aims […]