Lauren G Block
Biographic Data
| ID | 78204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren G Block |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren G |
| FAMILY NAME | Block |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCK L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From Nutrients to Nurturance: A Conceptual Introduction to Food Well-Being
The authors propose a restructuring of the “food as health” paradigm to “food as well-being.” This requires shifting from an emphasis on restraint and restrictions to a more positive, holistic understanding of the role of food in overall well-being. The authors propose the concept of food well-being (FWB), defined as a positive psychological, physical, emotional, and social relationship with food at both individual and societal levels. The author…
Why My Mother Never Threw Anything Out: The Effect of Product Freshness on Consumption
This research focuses on a pervasive but largely unexamined product attribute-freshness date-to shed light on how and why its influence on the consumption of perishable products changes with product ownership. Drawing on recent research on the endowment effect, we demonstrate that even when the differential costs implicit in ownership are controlled for, consumers are more likely to actually consume a product past its freshness date when they own…
When Consumers Do Not Recognize "Benign" Intention Questions as Persuasion Attempts
We demonstrate that the mere-measurement effect occurs because asking an intention question is not perceived as a persuasion attempt. In experiments 1 and 2, we show that when persuasive intent is attributed to an intention question, consumers adjust their behavior as long as they have sufficient cognitive capacity to permit conscious correction. In experiment 3 we demonstrate that this finding holds with product choice and consumption, and we fi…
Assessing the Impact of Antidrug Advertising on Adolescent Drug Consumption: Results From a Behavioral Economic Model
Objectives. This study examined whether adolescents’ recall of antidrug advertising is associated with a decreased probability of using illicit drugs and, given drug use, a reduced volume of use. Methods. A behavioral economic model of influences on drug consumption was developed with survey data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents to determine the incremental impact of antidrug advertising. Results. The findings provided evide…
We're at as Much Risk as We Are Led to Believe: Effects of Message Cues on Judgments of Health Risk
One of the greatest challenges in advertising health-related information is overcoming the target audiences' self-positivity bias (i.e., the tendency for people to believe that they are invulnerable to disease). In this article, we show that the self-positivity bias hinders message processing, and we demonstrate that message cues can reduce this bias and engage people in more precautionary thinking and behavior. We identify the process by which r…
Personal appearance and consumption in popular culture: A framework for descriptive and prescriptive analysis
The theme of personal appearance and its relation to consumer behavior in the culture of consumption plays a major role in our popular arts and entertainment. On this theme, the authors begin with a general consideration of the role played by physical attractiveness in interpersonal relations. They next develop a typology to suggest a framework that embodies four perspectives on personal appearance and consumption in popular culture: Configuratio…
Vividness Effects: A Resource-Matching Perspective
The authors present a resource-matching perspective to explain the relationship between vividness and persuasion. Three experiments confirm the predicted inverted-U relationship between resource allocation and persuasion for vivid information, and a positive linear relationship between resource allocation and persuasion for nonvivid information when vivid information is less resource demanding than nonvivid information. This persuasion pattern is…
We're at as Much Risk as We Are Led to Believe: Effects of Message Cues on Judgments of Health Risk
One of the greatest challenges in advertising health-related information is overcoming the target audiences' self-positivity bias (i.e., the tendency for people to believe that they are invulnerable to disease). In this article, we show that the self-positivity bias hinders message processing, and we demonstrate that message cues can reduce this bias and engage people in more precautionary thinking and behavior. We identify the process by which r…
Vividness Effects: A Resource-Matching Perspective
The authors present a resource-matching perspective to explain the relationship between vividness and persuasion. Three experiments confirm the predicted inverted-U relationship between resource allocation and persuasion for vivid information, and a positive linear relationship between resource allocation and persuasion for nonvivid information when vivid information is less resource demanding than nonvivid information. This persuasion pattern is…
When Consumers Do Not Recognize "Benign" Intention Questions as Persuasion Attempts
We demonstrate that the mere-measurement effect occurs because asking an intention question is not perceived as a persuasion attempt. In experiments 1 and 2, we show that when persuasive intent is attributed to an intention question, consumers adjust their behavior as long as they have sufficient cognitive capacity to permit conscious correction. In experiment 3 we demonstrate that this finding holds with product choice and consumption, and we fi…
Why My Mother Never Threw Anything Out: The Effect of Product Freshness on Consumption
This research focuses on a pervasive but largely unexamined product attribute-freshness date-to shed light on how and why its influence on the consumption of perishable products changes with product ownership. Drawing on recent research on the endowment effect, we demonstrate that even when the differential costs implicit in ownership are controlled for, consumers are more likely to actually consume a product past its freshness date when they own…
Personal appearance and consumption in popular culture: A framework for descriptive and prescriptive analysis
The theme of personal appearance and its relation to consumer behavior in the culture of consumption plays a major role in our popular arts and entertainment. On this theme, the authors begin with a general consideration of the role played by physical attractiveness in interpersonal relations. They next develop a typology to suggest a framework that embodies four perspectives on personal appearance and consumption in popular culture: Configuratio…
Assessing the Impact of Antidrug Advertising on Adolescent Drug Consumption: Results From a Behavioral Economic Model
Objectives. This study examined whether adolescents’ recall of antidrug advertising is associated with a decreased probability of using illicit drugs and, given drug use, a reduced volume of use. Methods. A behavioral economic model of influences on drug consumption was developed with survey data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents to determine the incremental impact of antidrug advertising. Results. The findings provided evide…
Vividness Effects: A Resource-Matching Perspective
The authors present a resource-matching perspective to explain the relationship between vividness and persuasion. Three experiments confirm the predicted inverted-U relationship between resource allocation and persuasion for vivid information, and a positive linear relationship between resource allocation and persuasion for nonvivid information when vivid information is less resource demanding than nonvivid information. This persuasion pattern is…
Personal appearance and consumption in popular culture: A framework for descriptive and prescriptive analysis
The theme of personal appearance and its relation to consumer behavior in the culture of consumption plays a major role in our popular arts and entertainment. On this theme, the authors begin with a general consideration of the role played by physical attractiveness in interpersonal relations. They next develop a typology to suggest a framework that embodies four perspectives on personal appearance and consumption in popular culture: Configuratio…
Assessing the Impact of Antidrug Advertising on Adolescent Drug Consumption: Results From a Behavioral Economic Model
Objectives. This study examined whether adolescents’ recall of antidrug advertising is associated with a decreased probability of using illicit drugs and, given drug use, a reduced volume of use. Methods. A behavioral economic model of influences on drug consumption was developed with survey data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents to determine the incremental impact of antidrug advertising. Results. The findings provided evide…
We're at as Much Risk as We Are Led to Believe: Effects of Message Cues on Judgments of Health Risk
One of the greatest challenges in advertising health-related information is overcoming the target audiences' self-positivity bias (i.e., the tendency for people to believe that they are invulnerable to disease). In this article, we show that the self-positivity bias hinders message processing, and we demonstrate that message cues can reduce this bias and engage people in more precautionary thinking and behavior. We identify the process by which r…
When Consumers Do Not Recognize "Benign" Intention Questions as Persuasion Attempts
We demonstrate that the mere-measurement effect occurs because asking an intention question is not perceived as a persuasion attempt. In experiments 1 and 2, we show that when persuasive intent is attributed to an intention question, consumers adjust their behavior as long as they have sufficient cognitive capacity to permit conscious correction. In experiment 3 we demonstrate that this finding holds with product choice and consumption, and we fi…
Why My Mother Never Threw Anything Out: The Effect of Product Freshness on Consumption
This research focuses on a pervasive but largely unexamined product attribute-freshness date-to shed light on how and why its influence on the consumption of perishable products changes with product ownership. Drawing on recent research on the endowment effect, we demonstrate that even when the differential costs implicit in ownership are controlled for, consumers are more likely to actually consume a product past its freshness date when they own…
From Nutrients to Nurturance: A Conceptual Introduction to Food Well-Being
The authors propose a restructuring of the “food as health” paradigm to “food as well-being.” This requires shifting from an emphasis on restraint and restrictions to a more positive, holistic understanding of the role of food in overall well-being. The authors propose the concept of food well-being (FWB), defined as a positive psychological, physical, emotional, and social relationship with food at both individual and societal levels. The author…
Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Consumption (sociology) (2 works)