Do Resonant Advertisements Resonate with Consumers? The Interaction Of Wordplay, Regulatory Focus, and Need for Cognition and Its Impact on Persuasion

Resonant advertisements—which employ a twist or deviation to create multiple meanings—commonly are used by marketing practitioners.

Do Resonant Advertisements Resonate with Consumers? The Interaction Of Wordplay, Regulatory Focus, and Need for Cognition and Its Impact on Persuasion

Jieun Choi

Kangwon National University

Charles R. Taylor

Villanova University

Doo-Hee Lee

Korea University

MANAGEMENT SLANT

  • Resonant advertisements can be particularly effective for individuals who are promotion focused or have high need for cognition.
  • Resonance in an advertisement does not appear to have an impact on prevention-focused consumers for any of the dependent measures of advertising effectiveness used in this study.
  • Resonant advertisements will perform better, on average, for a general consumer group, because people who are not influenced...

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