Brands and Inhibition: A Go/No-Go Task Reveals the Power of Brand Influence
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Whether selecting a candy in a shop or picking a digital camera online, there are usually
many options from which consumers may choose. With such abundance, consumers must
use a variety of cognitive, emotional, and heuristic means to filter out and inhibit some of
their responses. Here we use brand logos within a Go/No-Go task to probe inhibitory control
during the presentation of familiar and unfamiliar logos. The results showed no differences
in response times or in commission errors (CE) between familiar and unfamiliar logos. However,
participants demonstrated a generally more cautious attitude of responding to the
familiar brands: they were significantly slower and less accurate at responding to these
brands in the Go trials. These findings suggest that inhibitory control can be exercised quite
effectively for familiar brands, but that when such inhibition fails, the potent appetitive nature
of brands is revealed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | Article Number: e0141787 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 Nov 2015 |
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