Strategic appeals and audience alignment in government short videos: A corpus-based analysis. [PDF]
Zhang H.
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All Quiet on the Luxury Front: How and When Sustainability Labels Influence Purchase Behavior
ABSTRACT As luxury brands launch sustainability initiatives and products, they face significant challenges, including the need to effectively communicate their practices to consumers. The current research draws on semiotics theory to explore how and when distinct types of sustainability labels, indexical and iconic, enhance brand authenticity ...
Shelly Rathee +2 more
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Prompt engineering a large language model with evidence-based persuasive features to improve confidence in mental health professionals: a pilot randomized experiment. [PDF]
Li A, Yao ST, Chen BX, Li XY, Guo SY.
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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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Affective cues in busy minds: emojis, affect infusion, and brand evaluation. [PDF]
Yoon G.
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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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The Effect of Influencer Image Types on Purchase Intention: The Mediating Role of Persuasion Knowledge and the Moderating Role of Parasocial Relationships. [PDF]
Qu Y, Lee J.
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ABSTRACT This study examines how social media influencers (SMIs) shape brand engagement and behavioral intention and when these effects vary across contexts. Drawing on 97 studies with a sample of 40,330 participants, we employ one‐stage meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (OSMASEM) to estimate the effects of SMI credibility (attractiveness ...
Tareq Rasul +6 more
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How corrective messages persuade in AI era: message sidedness, source attribution, and psychological pathways in health misinformation correction. [PDF]
Xu J, Yu J, Zhou WA, Zhao Y, Shi J.
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