Consumer Learning and Split-Brain Theory: Potential Usage in an Advertisement
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2023-06
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Abstract
Understanding customers has an enormously beneficial effect on market success.
Repeated advertising combining emotional and rational appeals is one technique to
establish a foothold in the minds of consumers. Even advertisements on reality
programs, movies, and sports are frequent forms of informing clients about the
product most commonly used in marketing. Marketers nowadays can employ
neuromarketing to tap into consumers' unconscious brain processes, but evaluating
neuromarketing approaches is costly. Using split-brain theory, advertisers can better
anticipate how consumers respond to their messages. Despite the fact that rational
thought would dissuade them from owning an object, people often acquire an
emotional attachment to things. This study looked at four countries and their major
brands of refrigerators to see how ads' content related to the left and right sides of
the brain. This study found that While Germany and India tend to concentrate on
the brain's right hemisphere, Bangladesh places equal emphasis on the left and right
sides. However, the United States tends to use the left side of the brain more. A
consumer's demand can be influenced by economic, demographic, cultural, and
political issues, which in turn ultimately causes a consumer's mind to connect with
promotional efforts. The findings of this study could be utilized to guide content
selections for campaigns both domestically and internationally, which has significant
ramifications for advertising agencies.
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Split-Brain Theory, Advertising, Consumer Learning
Citation
Karmakar, A., Khan, Z. H., Roshid, M., Yesmin, S. H., & Shamme, F. B. (2023). Consumer Learning and Split-Brain Theory: Potential Usage in an Advertisement. International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences, 111(3), 168- 176.
