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Know the name, forget the exposure: Brand familiarity versus memory of exposure context
Author(s) -
Holden Stephen J. S.,
Vanhuele Marc
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
psychology and marketing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.035
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1520-6793
pISSN - 0742-6046
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6793(199909)16:6<479::aid-mar3>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - psychology , context (archaeology) , brand names , product (mathematics) , cognitive psychology , implicit memory , social psychology , advertising , cognition , neuroscience , business , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , biology
This research shows that a single auditory exposure to fictitious brand names may create the impression, one day later, that these brand names actually exist. It appears that the judgment that the brands are known is based on brand familiarity coupled with a failure to remember the exposure context. This demonstration, inspired by the false fame effect, is interpreted as the product of an implicit memory process. The result implies that measurement of explicit memory of an ad or other marketing communication may misrepresent (in this case, understate) the influence of that communication. However, the effect was obtained only when attention to the fictitious brand names was deliberate (as opposed to incidental). This suggests that there are lower attentional limits to the influence of one exposure to a brand name on creating familiarity without memory of the exposure context. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.