A influência da estrutura da mensagem na certeza de atitude do consumidor e o papel moderador do tipo de decisão como estratégia persuasiva

Abstract

Presenting a message in terms of potential gains or potential losses is one of the Marketing's communication strategies used to convince people to accept an idea, product or service. Studies related to this persuasive tactic, treated in the literature as message framing, expanded understanding of how people process the information received and make their decisions. Despite the advances occured in terms of impact of this variable on people's behavior, few studies have explored the influence of message framing on the attitude certainty, a construct that reflects a more stable long-term perspective of the individual attitude. Similarly, they found no studies involving this relationship to the context in which decisions are made. Thus, this study aims to deepen the findings of Rucker, Petty and Briñol (2008) study who found that the relationship between the message structure with the certainty of attitude, adding this relationship a new variable: the type of decision. For this, we used the experimental method for the two studies via Mechanical Turk. The results showed that the type of decision moderates the relationship between message framing and attitude certainty, and the emotional context of a decision tends to increase the conviction that the individual hold his attitude.