Consumer Judgments As a Function of Social Class
Using a service context, two experiments tested the hypothesis that lower class individuals, who are more holistic thinkers, focus primarily on context as a whole, whereas upper class individuals, who are more analytic thinkers, focus primarily on specific events only.
Citation:
Jaehoon Lee, L. J. Shrum, and Tina M. Lowrey (2013) ,"Consumer Judgments As a Function of Social Class", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 41, eds. Simona Botti and Aparna Labroo, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research.
Authors
Jaehoon Lee, University of Houston at Clear Lake, USA
L. J. Shrum, HEC Paris, France
Tina M. Lowrey, HEC Paris, France
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 41 | 2013
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