Misleading advertising and minimum quality standards

Hattori, Keisuke; Higashida, Keisaku

doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2014.04.004

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“…Given the appeal of gossip and scandal, as illustrated by media outlets such as the National Enquirer or Access Hollywood on TV, advertisers can thus profit off sensationalized and potentially misinformed claims (e.g., Han et al, 2022). Another fundamental concern is that advertisements themselves contain misinformation (Baker, 2018;Braun & Loftus, 1998;Glaeser & Ujhelyi, 2010;Hattori & Higashida, 2014;Rao, 2022;Zeng et al, 2020Zeng et al, , 2021.…”

Section: Societal-level Effects Of Misinformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?

Adams

Osman

Bechlivanidis

et al. 2023

Perspect Psychol Sci

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In the last decade there has been a proliferation of research on misinformation. One important aspect of this work that receives less attention than it should is exactly why misinformation is a problem. To adequately address this question, we must first look to its speculated causes and effects. We examined different disciplines (computer science, economics, history, information science, journalism, law, media, politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology) that investigate misinformation. The consensus view points to advancements in information technology (e.g., the Internet, social media) as a main cause of the proliferation and increasing impact of misinformation, with a variety of illustrations of the effects. We critically analyzed both issues. As to the effects, misbehaviors are not yet reliably demonstrated empirically to be the outcome of misinformation; correlation as causation may have a hand in that perception. As to the cause, advancements in information technologies enable, as well as reveal, multitudes of interactions that represent significant deviations from ground truths through people’s new way of knowing (intersubjectivity). This, we argue, is illusionary when understood in light of historical epistemology. Both doubts we raise are used to consider the cost to established norms of liberal democracy that come from efforts to target the problem of misinformation.

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Section: Societal-level Effects Of Misinformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?

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Osman

Bechlivanidis

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Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…More recently, Glaeser and Ujhelyi (2010) analyze various responses to regulating misinformation (counter-advertising, taxation and product regulation). The authors assume that consumers naïvely believe all advertising claims (see also Hattori andHigashida 2012 and2014 for duopoly markets with either horizontally or vertically differentiated goods). Their results suggest that a certain amount of misinformation about product quality may improve social welfare under imperfect competition.…”

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“…two respects: (i) while considering a market with constant overall demand, we allow for a variable share of naïve consumers and, most importantly, (ii) we focus on law enforcement against misleading claims. As in our model, Nagler (1993) and Hattori and Higashida (2015) relax the assumption of only naïve consumers. Nagler (1993) allows consumers to learn, at some cost, about the trustworthiness of advertising and establishes that firms may still use misleading advertising.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nagler (1993) allows consumers to learn, at some cost, about the trustworthiness of advertising and establishes that firms may still use misleading advertising. Hattori and Higashida (2015) set up a model of price competition between two firms producing horizontally and vertically differentiated products allowing for misleading advertising. Their findings, similar to those of Glaeser and Ujhelyi (2010), show that misinformation has two effects, which go in opposite directions from a social welfare point of view: misinformation distorts consumers' decision-making but can correct inefficiencies resulting from the misallocation of goods.…”

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Exposing false advertising

Baumann

Rasch

2020

Canadian J of Economics

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Countries rely on different public and private agents to enforce consumer protection and fair competition regulations. To analyze the repercussions of different regimes on social welfare, we consider the possibility of false advertising by a firm in an environment with duopolistic competition and with consumers who can be rational or naïve regarding the trustworthiness of advertising claims. We compare the incentives for and outcomes of false advertisement verification and injunction requests made by one of three parties: a government agency with a broad focus maximizing (ex post) total welfare and two narrowly focused parties, the first a public or private party focused on consumer welfare net of its own enforcement costs and the second a competitor interested exclusively in its own profits. Considering ex ante welfare, we find that having a narrowly focused party as the plaintiff can be optimal due to government agency commitment problems. The optimal regime depends on both the share of the population's naïve consumers and the level of enforcement costs.

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“…On the one hand, it is unquestionably connected with the increasing popularity of the concept of quality and the willingness to purchase products and services of a desired level. On the other hand, however, this concept is very frequently overused [1,2] and is used by sellers excessively or simply dishonestly, when it does not match high quality in reality [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

Holistic Education for Sustainable Development: A Study of Shaping the Pro-Quality Attitude of Students in the Polish Educational System

Spychalski¹

2023

Sustainability

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The scope of this article is fact finding and evaluation of activities for sustainable development in the field of shaping a pro-quality attitude in the educational system. As indicated by UNESCO, education for sustainable development needs a holistic approach. In this perspective, pro-quality education plays a double role—it includes contents that are innovative and closely related to sustainable development and it is a link connecting other activities of the educational system to achieve the objectives of education for sustainable development. This issue, as overlooked in most countries, is an attractive educational innovation, which can affect shaping students’ attitudes in a more effective way. For the purpose of this research, the author collected secondary data as a result of literature analysis, mostly including governing and archival acts of law, as well as raw data with the use of a diagnostic survey method with a questionnaire survey technique. The main stage of this method was collecting research data through surveying students, representatives of teaching staff, and school principals from schools in Poland. Research conducted by the author supported the proposed hypothesis, according to which the Polish educational system is not oriented towards shaping the pro-quality attitude of high school students.

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Misleading advertising and minimum quality standards

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?

(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?

Exposing false advertising

Holistic Education for Sustainable Development: A Study of Shaping the Pro-Quality Attitude of Students in the Polish Educational System

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