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The effects of time constraints on consumers' judgments of prices and products
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The effects of time constraints on consumers' judgments of prices and products

Rajneesh Suri and Kent Monroe
The Journal of consumer research, v 30(1), pp 92-104
01 Jun 2003

Abstract

Consumer behavior Consumers Decision making Heuristic Hypotheses Information processing Motivation Perceptions Price levels Prices Product quality Variance analysis
This article examines how time constraints influence consumers' product evaluations over different levels of price information. To understand the effects of time constraints (time pressure), a conceptual framework incorporating both the motivational and the resource effects of time constraints on consumers' information processing is developed. Using price as the attribute information to be evaluated, specific hypotheses about the effects of time constraints on the relationship between price and consumers' perceptions of quality and monetary sacrifice are proposed. The results of a replicated experiment show that perceptions of quality and monetary sacrifice exhibit different response patterns depending on the time constraints, price levels, and subjects' motivations to process information. Additional analyses provide insights into how these two perceptions are integrated to form perceptions of value. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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