Personality Types Lead People To Choose Certain Brands

Personality Types Lead People To Choose Certain Brands

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215111437.htm

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According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, people’s relationship styles can affect their brand choices.

According to the authors, anxiously attached individuals are more influenced by “brand personalities,” the idea that a brand possesses humanlike traits, such as sincerity or excitement. “Because of a low view of self, anxious individuals use brands to signal their ideal self-concept to future relationship partners and therefore focus more on the personality of the brand,” the authors write.

In several studies, the researchers tested participants to determine their attachment styles. Then they asked about their desires for “sincere” versus “exciting” products. “Anxious individuals who were more avoidant of relationships tended to choose Abercrombie jeans, which were perceived to be more exciting than sincere. In contrast, anxious individuals who seek intimacy in relationships were more likely to pick Gap jeans, which were perceived as more sincere than exciting,” the authors write.