AI Chatbots Versus Human Agents for Customer Service: A Social Belonging Perspective
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed customer service, leading to the widespread adoption of AI‐driven chatbots. Despite these advances, consumers consistently prefer human agents over AI chatbots, as documented in both academic research and industry reports. This research proposes a Social Belonging Perspective to explain this
Linwan Wu, Chi Zhang, Kai Tian
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The relationship between the social media advertising content characteristics and the advertising effectiveness of female users: a moderated mediation model based on basic psychological needs. [PDF]
Han Y.
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Feeling Right Matters: The Impact of Character Design–Appeal Match on Social Media Engagement
ABSTRACT In today's saturated digital environment, brands increasingly use characters to capture attention and engage consumers on social media. Yet little research has examined how brand character design interacts with advertising appeals in social media communication.
Luyao Hao, Takeshi Moriguchi
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The Feasibility and Cost-Effectiveness of Tailored Social Media Advertising to Recruit Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents in the Southern United States: Online Survey Study. [PDF]
Lambert D, Luisi N.
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Mitigating Chatbot Service Failures: The Roles of Anthropomorphism, Acknowledgment, and Apology
ABSTRACT This study examines how chatbot anthropomorphism shapes consumer responses to service failure by distinguishing between process failure and outcome failure and by testing alternative recovery responses. Across three pretests (N = 30, 120 and 240) and two scenario‐based experiments (Study 1: N = 346; Study 2: N = 778), consumers evaluated ...
Juyon Lee, Wujin Chu, Rajat Roy
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Digital Archiving of Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Claims Made by Businesses Selling Unproven Stem Cell Interventions. [PDF]
Turner L.
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Evolving Paradigms of Sustainability in Luxury Fashion: Evidence From an Emerging Market
ABSTRACT The global fashion industry is both an economic driver and a major contributor of environmental and social challenges. This research examines how sustainable luxury fashion is constructed and adopted within an emerging market context by integrating perspectives from entrepreneurs, industry managers, and consumers.
Sandipan Sen +4 more
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Unhealthy Digital Marketing Among Aboriginal People in Australia: Findings From the #DigitalMob Pilot Study. [PDF]
Browne J +17 more
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ABSTRACT The present research examines how consumers interpret visible manifestations of circular production and how these interpretations shape product evaluation in symbolic product categories. Prior research has primarily examined sustainability as an evaluative attribute, with comparatively less attention devoted to how sustainability cues embedded
Eun‐Jung Lee
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