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The University of Chicago Pressonsumers' attitudes toward a product or purchase of a product may often influence their purchase decisions. Such attitudes are presumably influenced by product information received from advertising or other sources. Numerous research studies have been conducted to better understand the factors that enhance consumers' memory for product information. However, the manner in which recalled product information influences the formation of purchase/product attitudes is surprisingly unclear. On some occasions consumers may recall bits of specific product information during a decision process (e.g., information recalled from a television advertisement) and may base their product attitudes on this information. There may be other occasions, however, when consumers form a product attitude prior to a purchase situation and retrieve the attitude from memory during the decision process (e.g., "I just remember that I liked the product."). In either case, memory processes are involved, but the content of the retrieved information and the way it is used differ considerably. The purpose of the present article is to (1) raise a number of theoretical issues relevant to understanding the relationship between product information recall and subsequently reported product attitudes, and (2) report onsumers' attitudes toward a product or purchase of a product may often influence their purchase decisions. Such attitudes are presumably influenced by product information received from advertising or other sources. Numerous research studies have been conducted to better understand the factors that enhance consumers' memory for product information. However, the manner in which recalled product information influences the formation of purchase/product attitudes is surprisingly unclear. On some occasions consumers may recall bits of specific product information during a decision process (e.g., information recalled from a television advertisement) and may base their product attitudes on this information. There may be other occasions, however, when consumers form a product attitude prior to a purchase situation and retrieve the attitude from memory during the decision process (e.g., "I just remember that I liked the product."). In either case, m...
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