Abstract:Consumers tend to dislike companies that use immoral marketing persuasion tactics. How do consumers decide what persuasion is morally acceptable and what persuasion is not? Three studies show that morality of marketing persuasion depends on consumers’ beliefs about information processing—Dual Process Intuitions. If consumers think persuasion aims at emotions and intuition—bypassing deliberative reasoning—they will evaluate it as more immoral and manipulative than persuasion believed to be processed deliberatel… Show more
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