Consumer responses to high-technology products: Product attributes, cognition, and emotions

Seunghyun Lee, Sejin Ha and Richard Widdows

Journal of Business Research, 2011, vol. 64, issue 11, 1195-1200

Abstract: The present study investigates how high-technology attributes influence consumer responses. Based on Mehrabian and Russell's Stimulus–Organism–Response (S–O–R) framework (1974), this study proposes that high-technology product attributes elicit consumers' cognitive (attitude) and affective states (pleasure and arousal), contributing to their approach–avoidance behavior. High-technology product users (N=408) participated in surveys. The results provide support for the model. Among six factors of high-technology product attributes (usefulness, ease of use, innovativeness of technology, visual appeal, prototypicality, and self-expression), the latter four have major influences on approach behavior through attitude (cognitive state) and pleasure (affective state). Supplemental analysis shows that attitude and pleasure influence approach–avoidance behavior directly, but that arousal affects approach–avoidance behavior indirectly via pleasure.

Keywords: High-technology product; Attributes; Cognition; Emotions; S–O–R framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.06.022

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