When and why paid reviews are bad investments: The impact of monetary incentives on reviewer certainty

Three experiments demonstrate that compared to monetary incentives (judged significant) or no incentives, small monetary incentives decrease review writers’ feelings of legitimacy, which results in greater expressed uncertainty in the reviews. In turn, this shift in content decreases recipients’ per...

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Main Authors: du PLESSIS, Christilene, DUBOIS, David
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-67982018-05-25T06:54:13Z When and why paid reviews are bad investments: The impact of monetary incentives on reviewer certainty du PLESSIS, Christilene DUBOIS, David Three experiments demonstrate that compared to monetary incentives (judged significant) or no incentives, small monetary incentives decrease review writers’ feelings of legitimacy, which results in greater expressed uncertainty in the reviews. In turn, this shift in content decreases recipients’ perception of the products reviewed and negatively affects their purchase intentions. 2015-10-05T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5799 Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Marketing Scholarly Communication
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Scholarly Communication
du PLESSIS, Christilene
DUBOIS, David
When and why paid reviews are bad investments: The impact of monetary incentives on reviewer certainty
description Three experiments demonstrate that compared to monetary incentives (judged significant) or no incentives, small monetary incentives decrease review writers’ feelings of legitimacy, which results in greater expressed uncertainty in the reviews. In turn, this shift in content decreases recipients’ perception of the products reviewed and negatively affects their purchase intentions.
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author du PLESSIS, Christilene
DUBOIS, David
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title When and why paid reviews are bad investments: The impact of monetary incentives on reviewer certainty
title_short When and why paid reviews are bad investments: The impact of monetary incentives on reviewer certainty
title_full When and why paid reviews are bad investments: The impact of monetary incentives on reviewer certainty
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title_full_unstemmed When and why paid reviews are bad investments: The impact of monetary incentives on reviewer certainty
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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