Nation Equity: Incidental Emotions in Country-of-Origin Effects
Durairaj Maheswaran, Cathy Yi Chen
Journal of Consumer Research · 2006 · Volume 33 · Issue 3
Abstract
Different from past research on country-of-origin effects that has focused on cognitive factors, this article examines the impact of incidental emotions and cognitive appraisals associated with these emotions on country-of-origin effects. Experiment 1 compared anger and sadness and demonstrated that country of origin influenced evaluations only in the angry (vs. sad) condition where human (vs. situation) control was high. Experiment 2 further identified the effects of agency control using a different emotion, frustration. Based on these observations, this article suggests that, like brands, countries also have equity associated with them, termed “nation equity,” that has both performance and emotional components.
Keywords
Affect/Emotions/Mood, Cognitive Processes, Judgment and Decision Making, Experimental Design and Analysis (ANOVA)
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