How the Past Shapes the Present: the Assimilation of Enjoyment to Similar Past Experiences

How much do experts and novices enjoy hedonic products? Is expertise a hedonic blessing or a hedonic curse? This inquiry examines how expertise develops by accumulating experiences in a product domain and how it affects enjoyment. We find that consumers draw back on similar past experiences to gauge present enjoyment.



Citation:

Anika Stuppy and Bram Van den Bergh (2018) ,"How the Past Shapes the Present: the Assimilation of Enjoyment to Similar Past Experiences", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46, eds. Andrew Gershoff, Robert Kozinets, and Tiffany White, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 805-807.

Authors

Anika Stuppy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Bram Van den Bergh, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46 | 2018



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