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The Impact of Emotion on Consumer Behavior

2025· article· en· W4412183842 on OpenAlexaff
Shuting Wang, Han Ding

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvances in Economics Management and Political Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Marketing and Social Media
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologySocial psychologyCognitive psychology

Abstract

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This study investigates the impact of different advertising appeals on consumer behavior by comparing emotional, functional, and neutral advertisements. Utilizing an experimental design, 475 participants were randomly assigned to view one of three types of advertisements for a fictional smartphone, with their purchase intention and decision time measured through questionnaires. The results indicate that emotional advertisements significantly enhance purchase intention (β = 1.871, p < 0.01) compared to functional and neutral advertisements, supporting behavioral theories that position emotion as a critical driver of consumer choice. In contrast, functional advertisements reduce decision time (β = -0.210, p < 0.05), likely due to their clear, feature-focused information facilitating quicker evaluation. These findings align with the dual-process model of decision-making, where emotional appeals evoke affective responses, and functional appeals satisfy cognitive efficiency. The study provides actionable insights for marketers, suggesting that emotional strategies are more effective in boosting purchase intention, while functional approaches optimize decision processes. Limitations include sample imbalance and cultural specificity (data collected in China), which may affect the generalizability of the results. Future research should explore cross-cultural differences and diverse product categories to further validate these findings. Overall, this study underscores the importance of tailoring advertising strategies based on consumer psychology and product types.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.355
Teacher spread0.342 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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