dc.contributor.advisor | Bolls, Paul David, 1966- | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Chao, Ming-Yi | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 Fall | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on June 6, 2012). | eng |
dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Thesis advisor: Dr. Paul Bolls | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.description | M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2011. | eng |
dc.description | "December 2011" | eng |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigates whether positive emotion-arousing ads following a corporate crisis can evoke positivity and repair attitude toward the brand. A fractional factorial experiment was conducted to examine participants' emotional variance and attitudinal change in response to a positive emotion-arousing ad following negative publicity on a brand. As a result, 1) based on physiological measures, reading negative news stories about a corporate crisis was neither an arousing nor a negative emotional experience; viewing a positive emotion-arousing ad was arousing and decreased negative emotion compared to a neutral ad, but positive emotion evoked by both content-arousal levels was not different. 2) According to self-reported emotion, however, participants reported negative emotion after reading negative news stories about a corporate crisis; they continued to report positive emotion and arousal after viewing a positive ad compared to after viewing a neutral ad. 3) Finally, viewing a positive emotion-arousing ad resulted in an increase of favorable attitude toward the ad compared to viewing a neutral ad; however, there was not a main effect of content arousal on brand attitude mediated through attitude toward the ad. Even though, viewing a positive emotion-arousing ad and a neutral ad both led to an increase of favorable brand attitude. | eng |
dc.format.extent | vii, 75 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/14533 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri-Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations. Theses. 2011 Theses | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject | crisis communication | eng |
dc.subject | advertising | eng |
dc.subject | information processing | eng |
dc.subject | emotional expression | eng |
dc.title | Advertising following negative publicity : the effect of content arousal on positivity and attitude toward the brand after a corporate crisis | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Journalism (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.A. | eng |