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Association for Consumer Research, Date: 2010/10/07 - 2010/10/10, Location: Jacksonville, Forida (USA)

Publication date: 2010-10-01
Volume: 38

ACR Proceedings

Author:

Vanhouche, Wouter
van Osselaer, Stijn

Abstract:

Consumers correctly learn to avoid low quality products that are priced high. Yet, they refrain from abandoning the idea that high price is a strong positive indicator in the category. A series of three studies suggests that consumers may use different processes to judge the quality of products they have versus have not tried before.