 Interest, but not liking, drives consumer preference toward noveltyBilly Sung, Eric Vanman and Nicole Hartley Australasian marketing journal, 2019, vol. 27, issue 4, 242-248 Abstract: Do consumers really like familiarity and therefore dislike novelty? This is a central question that has resonated through different fields of marketing and psychology. Past research has found that people heuristically associate familiarity to liking, but they also prefer novelty in certain motivational contexts. This paper presents three studies to show that novelty does not result in liking but instead, evokes interest—a similar but functionally different positive affective experience. Specifically, we show that people feel interested toward and therefore favour a product when it is subjectively perceived to be new or said to be new, even when the novel product is objectively identical to its counterpart. Novelty, however, was found to be unrelated to liking. These findings suggest that consumers’ paradoxical tendency to favour both familiarity and novelty is manifested in ways beyond a general emotional valence account. Specifically, familiarity appears to evoke liking whereas novelty appears to evoke interest. Keywords: Familiarity; Novelty; Interest; Liking (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:aumajo:v:27:y:2019:i:4:p:242-248 DOI: 10.1016/j.ausmj.2019.06.003 Access Statistics for this article Australasian marketing journal is currently edited by Roger Marshall More articles in Australasian marketing journal from Elsevier |
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