“…Cool brands possess a number of valued characteristics, including being esthetically appealing, exciting, and useful (Warren, Loureiro, Batra, & Bagozzi, ). Cool products tend to be perceived as more desirable (Sundar, Tamul, & Wu, ; Yin, Pol, & Tellis, ) and receive more favorable evaluations than uncool products (Im, Bhat, & Lee, ). Qualitative studies similarly report that consumers often use the word cool to describe people and products that they approve of or like (Belk et al., ).…”