According to the processing fluency model, advertising exposures enhance the ease with which a brand can be recognized and processed. This increased perceptual fluency in turn leads to more favorable attitudes toward the brand. The present research extends the processing fluency model to examine...

Across six studies, we demonstrate that consumers have beliefs pertaining to the transience of emotion, which, along with their current feelings, determine the extent to which they regulate their immediate affect. If consumers believe that emotion is fleeting, those feeling happy (vs. unhappy)...

The authors present the results of two studies showing that consumers' evaluation of an advertised brand can be influenced by prior advertising of products from related categories. When the regulatory goal of the target brand matches (conflicts with) the regulatory goal of the related product,...