Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions

Consumers often imagine what it would be like to own a new product. Does engaging in such thoughts on desired future impact consumers’ purchase intentions, and if so, what is the underlying process? This study sets out to investigate the posed questions by assessing self-regulatory strategies consum...

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Main Authors: SOHN, Yong Seok, YOO, Kun Woo, HAN, Jin K.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-69212019-01-28T08:49:16Z Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions SOHN, Yong Seok YOO, Kun Woo HAN, Jin K. Consumers often imagine what it would be like to own a new product. Does engaging in such thoughts on desired future impact consumers’ purchase intentions, and if so, what is the underlying process? This study sets out to investigate the posed questions by assessing self-regulatory strategies consumers employ upon pondering on a desired future. Based on Oettingen’s fantasy realization model, the authors take a comparative approach of two modes on desired future—mental contrasting and indulging—en route to purchase intentions. In mental contrasting, an individual juxtaposes a desired future with his/her present reality, whereas, indulging is simply envisioning a desired future. Contingent upon the perceived likelihood of fantasy realization, consumers in the mental-contrasting condition adjust their level—that is, high (low) for high (low) feasibility case—in goal commitment as well as in energization to achieve the desired future. In contrast, consumers in the indulging condition engage in moderate level of goal commitment—irrespective of the likelihood of fantasy realization. In a series of experiments, this study scrutinizes the fantasy realization model in context of attribute alignability/nonalignability, uncertainty in attribute meaningfulness and novelty, technological and psychological obsolescence en route to affecting the consumers’ product purchase/upgrade intentions. Conceptually, this study is the first to adapt the fantasy realization model to the marketing context, and the authors provide managerial implications of their key findings. 2019-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5922 info:doi/10.1002/mar.21156 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6921/viewcontent/Perceived_product_creativity_and_mental_contrasting_pp.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Energization Indulging Meaningfulness Mental contrasting Novelty Strength of association Uncertainty Marketing Sales and Merchandising
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topic Energization
Indulging
Meaningfulness
Mental contrasting
Novelty
Strength of association
Uncertainty
Marketing
Sales and Merchandising
spellingShingle Energization
Indulging
Meaningfulness
Mental contrasting
Novelty
Strength of association
Uncertainty
Marketing
Sales and Merchandising
SOHN, Yong Seok
YOO, Kun Woo
HAN, Jin K.
Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions
description Consumers often imagine what it would be like to own a new product. Does engaging in such thoughts on desired future impact consumers’ purchase intentions, and if so, what is the underlying process? This study sets out to investigate the posed questions by assessing self-regulatory strategies consumers employ upon pondering on a desired future. Based on Oettingen’s fantasy realization model, the authors take a comparative approach of two modes on desired future—mental contrasting and indulging—en route to purchase intentions. In mental contrasting, an individual juxtaposes a desired future with his/her present reality, whereas, indulging is simply envisioning a desired future. Contingent upon the perceived likelihood of fantasy realization, consumers in the mental-contrasting condition adjust their level—that is, high (low) for high (low) feasibility case—in goal commitment as well as in energization to achieve the desired future. In contrast, consumers in the indulging condition engage in moderate level of goal commitment—irrespective of the likelihood of fantasy realization. In a series of experiments, this study scrutinizes the fantasy realization model in context of attribute alignability/nonalignability, uncertainty in attribute meaningfulness and novelty, technological and psychological obsolescence en route to affecting the consumers’ product purchase/upgrade intentions. Conceptually, this study is the first to adapt the fantasy realization model to the marketing context, and the authors provide managerial implications of their key findings.
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author SOHN, Yong Seok
YOO, Kun Woo
HAN, Jin K.
author_facet SOHN, Yong Seok
YOO, Kun Woo
HAN, Jin K.
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title Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions
title_short Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions
title_full Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions
title_fullStr Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions
title_full_unstemmed Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions
title_sort perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2019
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5922
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