Retraction: Identity Threats, Compensatory Consumption, And Working Memory Capacity: How Feeling Threatened Leads To Heightened Evaluations Of Identity-Relevant Products (Retraction Of Vol 46, Pg 99, 2019)
JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH(2020)
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Despite abundant work documenting consumers' reliance on symbolic self-completion after experiencing a self-discrepancy, surprisingly little research has investigated the underlying psychological processes that drive this type of compensatory consumption. This article addresses this critical gap, demonstrating that self-discrepancies triggered by identity threats reduce working memory capacity (WMC), and these reductions in WMC mediate compensatory consumption. Consumers process identity-relevant products more positively than neutral products, establishing a causal chain between self-threats, WMC, and compensatory consumption. In addition, identity-consistent experiences facilitate increases in WMC. Importantly, by utilizing negative emotions as the source of self-threat, this article also demonstrates that identity-inconsistent emotions can serve as a source of threat that is not only impactful, but also easily manipulated by managers through advertisements.
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compensatory consumption,identity threat,emotions,working memory capacity
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