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Variety Counts: How Variety Is Perceived in the Presence of Self-Regulatory Goals
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Variety Counts: How Variety Is Perceived in the Presence of Self-Regulatory Goals

Hoori Rafieian, Yanliu Huang and Barbara Kahn
Advances in Consumer Research, Vol.45
01 Jan 2017

Abstract

Consumer behavior Goal setting Perceptions Studies
We propose that when people are primed with a self-regulatory goal, less (more) variety in goal-inconsistent (goal-consistent) acts results in less anticipated-guilt (more anticipated-reward). We show that, because goal-primed individuals perceive a greater variety of indulgent items to be greater in quantity, they avoid variety in order to minimize anticipated-guilt.

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