Session 4
04:15 - 06:00 (May 18, Sat)

4A : Product Perception, Preference and Learning
Chair: Joseph W. CHANG (UMIST, UK)

Assimilation and contrast effects on consumers' choices

Hao SHEN (CEIBS, China)

Consumers' Views of University Promotion Campaign - Evidence from Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong

Kim Shyan FAM (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Brendan J. GRAY (University of Otago, New Zealand), Regan LAM (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) & Zhilin Yang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Consumer Perceptions of Value: A Multi-Item Scale for Its Measurement

Md. Humayun Kabir CHOWDHURY (Yokohama National University, Japan) & Shuzo ABE (Yokohama National University, Japan)

National Identity, Consumer Ethnocentrism and Product Preferences in Vietnam: A Conjoint Analysis

Garold LANTZ (Monmouth University, USA), Sandra LOEB (Institute of Economics and Information Technology, Ukraine), Tuyet Thi Mai NGUYEN (National Economics University, Vietnam) & Tang Van KHANH (National Economics University, Vietnam)

Profiling Consumer Groups of Green Products in a Transition Economy: China

Yong GAO (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Fang GU (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Quoqing GUO (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) & David K. TSE (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)


4B : Economic Psychology

The Persuasive Power of Warranties: The Effects of Competing Signals, Supporting Quality Information, and Need for Cognition

Subimal CHATTERJEE (Binghamton University, USA), Timothy B. HEATH (Miami University, USA) & Debi Prasad MISHRA (Binghamton University, USA)

Toward Understanding of Dual Entitlement Principle in Consumer Fair Price Judgments

Alexey NOVOSELTSEV (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) & Luk WARLOP (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)

Antecedents and consequences of moral ties in close marketing relationships.

Kare SANDVIK (Buskerud University College,Norway.), Bendik M. SAMUELSEN (Norwegian School of Management BI, Norway) & Havard HANSEN (Norwegian School of Management BI, Norway)

Consumer Response to Volume Display: Product Attitude, Price
Evaluation, and Purchase Intention

Miyuri SHIRAI (Yokohama National University, Japan)

A Stock-Price-Concerned Messages Analysis System on the Data Mining Technique

June-Horng SHIESH (National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taiwan), Tung-Shou CHEN (National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taiwan), Yi-Chen LIAO (National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taiwan) & Chi-Te
HUANG (Providence University, Taiwan)


4C : Special Session: Predicting Consumer Behavior by Implicit Attitudes
Chair: Henning PLESSNER

Using the Implicit Association Test to study the relation between consumer's implicit attitudes and product usage

Dominika MAISON (University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland)

When implicit attitude measures predict brand choice - and when they don¡¦t

Michaela WANKE(Universitat Erfurt, Germany), Henning PLESSNER(Universitat Heidelberg, Germany), & Malte Friese(Universitat Heidelberg, Germany)

Partially structured" attitude measures to enhance behavioral prediction

Patrick T. VARGAS (University of Illinois, USA)

Consumer persuasion as a function of explicit and implicit self-beliefs

S. Christian WHEELER(Stanford University, USA), Pablo BRINOL(The Ohio State University, USA), & Richard E. PETTY(The Ohio State University, USA)




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