“…Third, prior branding research has shown variations in consumers’ responses to different positive/negative brand-related outcomes (e.g. anti-brand actions) because of their attachment styles (Kordrostami and Kordrostami, 2019) and thinking styles (Hur et al , 2020). However, brand forgiveness, as an outcome, has been ignored, despite its central role in influencing brand betrayal, avoidance, retaliation (Rasouli et al , 2022), repurchase intentions (Tsarenko and Tojib, 2015) and private and public complaining (Fetscherin and Sampedro, 2019).…”