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Marketing and the Use of Fear- or Anxiety-arousing Appeals

John J. Wheatley

Journal of Marketing · 1971 · Volume 35 · Issue 2

DOI: 10.1177/002224297103500212

Abstract

Are anxiety-arousing advertising messages more effective with nonowners of a product than with owners? The author reports on an experimental test of this hypothesis.

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