Aydinli, A., Bertini, M., &Lambrecht, A. (2014). Price promotion for emotional impact. Journal of Marketing, 78(4), 80-96.
Managers and academics often think of price promotions merely as incentives that entice consumers to accept offers that they might not have considered otherwise. Yet the prospect of paying a lower price for a product of given quality can also discourage deliberation, in a sense “dumbing down” the purchase encounter by making it less consequential. The authors examine this possibility in a dual-system theory of ...