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The persuasiveness of guilt appeals over time: Pathways to delayed compliance

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dc.creator Antonetti, Paolo
dc.creator Baines, Paul
dc.creator Jain, Shailendra
dc.date 2018-06-26T14:51:22Z
dc.date 2018-06-26T14:51:22Z
dc.date 2018-05-03
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:36:31Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:36:31Z
dc.identifier Antonetti P, Baines P, Jain SP. The persuasiveness of guilt appeals over time: Pathways to delayed compliance. Journal of Business Research, Volume 90, September 2018, pp. 14-25
dc.identifier 0148-2963
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.03.030
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13270
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182129
dc.description Past research on guilt-elicitation in marketing does not examine how the communications' effects might persist over time, when there is a gap between advertising at time 1 and the time of choice consideration at time 2. This study explores the processes leading to delayed compliance through guilt-based communications. Guilt elicitation enhances transportation into the message, driving message compliance through the effect of transportation. Transportation explains the effects recorded several days after campaign exposure. The influence of transportation is mediated by two pathways: increases in anticipated guilt and perceived consumer effectiveness. The message type moderates the relevance of different pathways in explaining persuasiveness. Appeals delivered through a text and image message (rather than text only) are more effective in driving compliance and shape reactions via guilt anticipation. The study raises important implications for research on the use of guilt appeals and the design of more effective messages based on this emotion.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Guilt appeals
dc.subject Persuasion
dc.subject Guilt elicitation
dc.subject Narrative transportation
dc.subject Emotions
dc.subject Anticipated guilt
dc.title The persuasiveness of guilt appeals over time: Pathways to delayed compliance
dc.type Article


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