Emotion and Engagement Across the Idol Spectrum: Comparing Virtual and Human Idols
ABSTRACT The increasing adoption of virtual idols in entertainment platforms raises critical questions about how viewers respond to their emotional performances compared to human idols. Despite their growing presence, little is known about whether and how emotional expressivity differs across performer modalities and content formats, or how these ...
Lin Kim +4 more
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Loneliness and the Customer Journey: Toward a Framework for Customer Experience Management
ABSTRACT How can customer experience (CX) frameworks be used to understand and support service firms to mitigate loneliness and social isolation? This paper addresses this question by developing the Lonely Customer Journey, a conceptual framework that uses the Touchpoints‐Context‐Qualities (TCQ) framework (De Keyser et al.
Nina Veflen, Lars Witell, Lars Fuglsang
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Consumer Cultural Renaissance: Conceptualisation, Scale Development, and Validation
ABSTRACT As incessant globalisation leads to the pervasive erosion of traditional Asian culture by Western consumerism, a recent phenomenon has emerged that allures Asian consumers to reconnect with their traditional culture via consumption. We postulate that this behaviour is rooted in a self‐identity, consumer cultural renaissance (CCR), that has not
Richard Lee +3 more
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Manufacturing Nostalgia in the Digital Age: A Foreverism Perspective
ABSTRACT Many scholars argue that we are experiencing the era of “retro”—nostalgia‐driven marketing and consumption phenomena reinforced by digital technologies. However, existing research lacks a critical analysis of nostalgia in contemporary markets and of how digital content, tools, and environments transform retro consumption experiences and alter ...
Dinara Davlembayeva +4 more
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ABSTRACT This experimental study compares how consumers engage with AI‐generated and human‐created advertisements, specifically examining patterns of visual attention, emotional and cognitive responses, attitudes toward AI, and whether emotional resonance fosters brand trust or future behavioral intentions.
Mariia Shitova +3 more
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Honoring the Afro-Colombian musical culture with the naming of Epipedobatescurrulao sp. nov. (Anura, Dendrobatidae), a frog from the Pacific rainforests. [PDF]
Betancourth-Cundar M +4 more
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ABSTRACT This study introduces the Paradox of Escapism, exploring how the act of escaping reality can evolve from a short‐term avoidance strategy to a mechanism for self‐regulation and enhanced life satisfaction. Employing five rigorous, multimethod investigations, including qualitative interviews and sentiment analysis (Study 1), Structural Equation ...
Thamiris Magalhães de Sousa +3 more
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From stage to screen: performance language mediation and audience engagement in Chinese and Anglo-American musical theater film adaptations. [PDF]
Lin Q.
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Physical Activity and Exercise for People with Parkinson's Disease: The Past, Present, and Future
Abstract This invited perspective paper celebrating the 40th anniversary of Movement Disorders demonstrates that the topic of physical activity and exercise as a treatment for Parkinson's disease did not feature before 2002 in this journal. The topic of physical activity and exercise garnered increasing recognition over the next two decades with ...
Daniel M. Corcos +3 more
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Exploring obscenity in Nigerian Afro-pop music: A sociocultural analysis of Yoruba youth and social norms. [PDF]
Egbowon OE, Çiftçi D, Adeshola I.
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