The Role of Cultural Communication Norms in Social Exclusion Effects

Jaehoon Lee (jhlee@siu.edu), L. J. Shrum (shrum@hec.fr) and Youjae Yi (youjae@snu.ac.kr)

No 1163, HEC Research Papers Series from HEC Paris

Abstract: Previous research suggests that when social exclusion is communicated in an explicit manner, consumers express preferences for helping, whereas when it is communicated in an implicit manner, they express preferences for conspicuous consumption. However, this may not always hold true. In the present research, we put forward a theoretical framework explaining that exclusion effects depend on the extent to which exclusion is communicated in a culturally normative or counter-normative manner, rather than whether it is communicated in an explicit or implicit manner. We show that exclusion communicated in a cultural norm-congruent manner produces preferences for helping, whereas exclusion communicated in a cultural norm-incongruent manner produces preferences for conspicuous consumption. We further show that the differential needs – self-esteem and power – threatened by normative and counter-normative exclusion explain these distinct preferences.

Keywords: Social Exclusion; Culture; Communication Norms; Helping; Conspicuous Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2016-08-02, Revised 2016-11-26
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2817365

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