Variety Promotes Flexibility: the Effect of Exposure to High Variety on New Product Evaluations

This research examines the subtle effect of exposure to high variety on consumer evaluations of unrelated new products. Five studies demonstrate that the exposure to high variety induces cognitive flexibility, which in turn leads to more favorable evaluations for new products.



Citation:

Zixi Jiang, Jing Xu, and Ravi Dhar (2013) ,"Variety Promotes Flexibility: the Effect of Exposure to High Variety on New Product Evaluations", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 41, eds. Simona Botti and Aparna Labroo, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: .

Authors

Zixi Jiang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jing Xu, Peking University, China
Ravi Dhar, Yale University, USA



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 41 | 2013



Share Proceeding

Featured papers

See More

Featured

L12. Should I Stay or Should I Go: When Our Companies Have Eyes for Other Consumers

Na Ri Yoon, Indiana University, USA
Jenny Olson, Indiana University, USA
Adam Duhachek, Indiana University, USA

Read More

Featured

Don’t Stop! Partitioning Increases Satiation to Food

Cammy Crolic, University of Oxford
Yang Yang, University of Florida, USA
Yangjie Gu, HEC Paris, France

Read More

Featured

Out of Your League: Women’s Luxury Products as Signals to Men

Yajin Wang, University of Maryland, USA
Vladas Griskevicius, University of Minnesota, USA
Qihui Chen, Peking University

Read More

Engage with Us

Becoming an Association for Consumer Research member is simple. Membership in ACR is relatively inexpensive, but brings significant benefits to its members.