Key design properties of marketing artifacts that influence consumer response include perceived attractiveness (the valenced evaluative response to the artifact) and perceived strength (the artifact’s ability to capture attention). The aesthetic middle principle contends that the designs most...

In this addendum, we present a measure of discrimination ability that is free of the downwardly biasing assumptions of previous discrimination measures. We discuss the magnitude of the bias in the previous measures, the reliability of all of the measures, intercorrelations among them, and their...

The universality of design perception and response is tested using data collected from 10 countries: Argentina, Australia, China, Germany, Great Britain, India, The Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, and the United States. A Bayesian, finite-mixture, structural equation model is developed that...

Researchers often test consumers' abilities to discriminate between two product formulations. Such tests are used in new product development, quality control, and competitive assessment. This paper investigates three paired comparison taste tests, each requiring a different judgment. These are:...