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How Consumers Process Unhealthy Food Advertising Featuring Risk-avoidance Appeals: Moderating Roles of Dieting Status and Gender on the Prediction Model of Selfand Functional Congruity

Hojoon Choi 1

1University of Houston

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study examined how the effects of risk-avoidance appeals in unhealthy food advertising are differently predicted by consumers’ self- and functional congruity. In addition, this research explored whether the predictive effects are moderated by consumers’ current dieting status and physiological gender. An experimental study found that functional-congruity had stronger predictive effects on ad evaluations than self-congruity. Moreover, the risk-avoidance appeals in unhealthy food advertising are more cognitively processed by dieting consumers, as well as among female consumers. These results provide several theoretical and practical implications for public health policy officials.

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