The joint effects of advertising and product trial: A source-monitoring perspective

Various sequences of exposure to advertising and product trial were examined using a source-monitoring framework. The findings suggest that memories of positive product-trial experience can be enhanced by advertisement exposure and such facilitation is greater when the temporal separation of the two information sources is minimal. In contrast, when product-trial experience is negative, the reverse is true. A source-monitoring explanation is put forth to understand the role and limit of memory (re)-construction from advertising exposure and product-trial experiences.