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JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 172-183Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jpr.12260
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embodied metaphors; sweetness metaphors; sweetness; persuasion; attitudes
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Three experiments explored how sweetness metaphors affect individuals' attitudes. The results indicated that sweetness metaphors led to positive responses to the target advertisement and the advertised product, both when the sweetness was actually experienced (Experiment 1) and when the sweetness experience was imagined (Experiment 2 and 3). In Experiment 1, participants who directly experienced a sweet taste evaluated a mineral water advertisement more positively than those who did not experience a sweet taste. Experiment 2 showed that an imagined sweet taste generated favorable attitudes toward the same targets as in Experiment 1. Results of Experiment 3, which used advertisements of various product categories, were similar to those of the previous two experiments, where both direct experience and mental imagination of sweetness were advantageous for forming favorable attitudes.
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