Academic literature on the topic 'Post-purchase emotions'

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and map out consumer emotions and their triggers and coping strategies practiced when the consumer has a dissatisfactory footwear product experience. Design/methodology/approach – A content analysis approach was employed to determine various types of consumer emotions and coping strategies and organize them into content categories in a systematic fashion. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 female consumers. Findings – The researchers propose a typology of emotional triggers in the pre- and post-purchase stages which describe consumers’ dissatisfactory purchase experiences with footwear products. Three negative emotional triggers in the pre-purchase stage were identified, including the act of shoe shopping itself, poor availability of products, and unfair return on investment. Negative emotional triggers that caused consumers’ stresses in the post-purchase stage included uncertainty in outcome and unmet expectation. Problem- and emotion-focussed coping strategies were also identified. Research limitations/implications – This study used snowball sampling for locating a hidden consumer population that was dissatisfied with footwear products. Although the number of interviewees was appropriate for a qualitative study, the size limits generalization of study findings. Practical implications – Implications of this study for the footwear industry are to provide better products for the consumer to reduce her emotional stress and increase satisfaction. The industry may consider restructuring size assortments, evaluating users’ experiences, improving product quality, performance, and service, and providing customization. Originality/value – Literature is lacking on the ways in which consumers manage stressful emotional experiences of footwear purchase-related situations. This research is the first to identify valuable information on the mechanism of female consumers’ negotiation process of pre- and post-purchase footwear experiences. It is of value to researchers, designers, manufacturers, and retailers.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how abstract vs concrete mindsets impact consumers’ post-purchase affective states. Drawing on construal level theory, the study examines when consumers experience “pleasure” or “guilt” after impulse buying. Design/methodology/approach The basic premises of this research was tested using multiple studies. Study 1 was conducted in the field, the second study engaged an online survey, while the third study used a laboratory experiment. Findings After impulse buying, consumers with abstract mindsets reported strong feelings of pleasure, whereas those with concrete mindsets experienced profound guilt. Research limitations/implications Research on affective responses (i.e. pleasure and guilt) following impulse purchase is limited. However, the present study helps understand an important research question: when do consumers feel pleasure (or guilt) after impulse buying? Practical implications Marketers can frame messages that align with abstract mindsets to enhance pleasure and reduce guilt after impulse buying. Social implications Policymakers can persuade consumers to refrain from making impulsive decisions through communication that reminds them of past impulse purchase behaviour, by triggering a concrete mindset. Originality/value This research extends the literature on post-purchase effects by demonstrating that consumers’ mindsets determine the intensity of their affective state after impulse buying.

Purpose From experiences recollections, this study aims to explore the place of emotions in the souvenir’s step of the family consumption process of luxury hotels stays. Design/methodology/approach To explore the emotional dimension, this exploratory research is based on a triple qualitative approach (software, manual and a psychology-based approach). In total, 1,055 e-reviews, following a family stay in four- and five-star hotels, were collected. Findings The findings highlight an omnipresent emotional dimension in the recollections of experiences of consumers who have travelled with their families. These emotional traces differ according to the hotel’s positioning. Overall, positive emotions are much more prominent in the most luxurious hotels, while negative emotions are more related to the four-star hotels. Moreover, the four-star hotels reviews mainly associate emotions with the tangible aspects of the offer. Those in five-star hotels are more structured through intangible aspects. Research limitations/implications The study of family decision-making dynamic, with a focus on the role of each family member, is a first perspective. That of experiences recollections apart from the digital approach is also to be considered. Practical implications On the one hand, the objective is to extend the literature about the role of emotions in a service consumption process, and especially in a family context, trying to understand the post-purchase step of these customers. On the other hand, it is interesting for hotel managers to identify to which aspects of the offer (e.g. comfort, room, catering, decoration) the emotional traces that have remained in the customers’ memory are associated. Originality/value This study considers the family unit in a new way, that of its emotional memories’ traces of luxury hotels experiences. The post-consumer stage of the purchase process based on many spontaneous online reviews analysis is investigated.

AbstractBackgroundThe role of impulsivity in post-purchase consumer regret is unclear and intriguing because of the negative emotions that underlie both constructs. It is particularly important to examine the impact of impulsivity on the relationship between regret and the Emotionality dimension of the HEXACO model of personality.ObjectivesThe purpose of this paper was to investigate the associations between consumer regret components: outcome regret and process regret, attention, motor and non-planning dimensions of impulsivity and Fearfulness, Anxiety, Dependence and Sentimentality domains of Emotionality.Methods/ApproachThe sample consisted of undergraduates from Zagreb, Croatia (Mage = 25.93, 56% females). The correlation and the regression analysis were performed. We used the Baratt impulsivity scale (BIS-11), the HEXACO-PI-R Emotionality scale and the Post Purchase Regret Scale (PPRS).ResultsThe PPCR total score was associated with the BIS-11 total score, attention and non-planning impulsivity. Regret due to foregone alternatives was related to attention and non-planning impulsivity, while regret due to a change in significance was related only to attention impulsivity. Regret due to under-consideration positively correlated with non-planning impulsivity.ConclusionsThe results indicate that relations between impulsivity and consumer regret have an important role in understanding consumer behavior and that impulsivity has a moderate association between consumer regret and Emotionality.

Purpose The current research explored both pre-purchase and post-purchase factors of consumer behaviour. Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships that may exist among consumers’ perceptions of perishability, scarcity, low price, attitudes, impulse buying, post-purchase emotions, and product returns within the context of the fast fashion environments. Design/methodology/approach A total of 246 usable questionnaires completed by female undergraduate students, who made purchases and product returns at fast fashion retailers, were analysed in SPSS and AMOS 23.0. Structural equation modelling was employed to test the hypotheses. Findings Consumers who are attracted to scarcity due to limited supply and scarcity due to time, referred to as perceived perishability, have a positive attitude towards the fast fashion retailers in which products are presented in scarce environments. Likewise, consumers have a positive attitude towards fast fashion retailers due to low priced merchandises they offer. Consequently, consumers who have a positive attitude towards the fast fashion retailers are likely to purchase products from them impulsively. Moreover, impulse buying behaviour positively influenced some negative post-purchase emotional responses, which in turn positively influenced product returns in the fast fashion environments. Research limitations/implications The results of the current study contribute to a greater understanding of apparel-related consumer behaviour in general. A theory formation of fast fashion consumer behaviour from acquisition to disposal can be drawn from the results of this study. Because some fast fashion retailers do sell clothing for both men and women, researchers could compare the responses of males and females to examine differences in consumer behaviour related to demographic characteristics. In the future, an examination of actual emotional responses and return behaviour would be beneficial for a more complete understanding of post-purchase consumer behaviour. Practical implications Fast fashion retailers could use this information to carefully design shopping environments that induce impulse buying behaviour because it may result in product returns. Fast fashion retailers need to understand the causes of the return behaviour, whether consumer related or product related, to better meet the needs of their target market. Return policies must be considered. Originality/value This research is the first to examine the impact of negative emotions following consumers’ impulse buying on product returns in the fast fashion retail environments.

Previous studies have suggested that consumption-related emotions are important to understand post-purchase reactions. This study examines the relationship between fitness consumers' emotions and overall satisfaction. After an initial step of free-thought listing and content validity, followed by a pre-test, a survey was conducted among consumers of five different fitness centers (n=786). The questionnaire included measures to assess positive and negative emotions, as well as overall satisfaction with the fitness center. The results gathered through a structural equation model provide evidence that negative emotion experienced by consumers impacts negatively overall satisfaction, while positive emotion have a positive effect on overall satisfaction. These findings suggest managerial implications, such as the need to collect consumers' perceptions of both tangible and intangible aspects of the services, listen costumers' opinions in a regular basis, and provide regular training to staff members, in order to identify the triggers of positive emotions and contribute to increased levels of overall satisfaction. Guidelines for future research within the fitness context are also suggested.

Purpose This paper aims to explore the role of surprise in reducing the negative impact of an undesired emotion, such as embarrassment, on the attitudes and behavioral intentions of consumers taking part in an event. Design/methodology/approach In total, 220 consumers took part in a pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental within-subject design. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings Findings show that an in-store social event designed to elicit young customers’ surprise and feelings of romantic love might also give rise to a relevant negative emotion such as embarrassment, and that surprise can act as a powerful managerial tool in limiting the negative effects of this negative emotion. Moreover, brand attitude and purchase intention are outcomes of positive emotions elicited by the event. Practical implications The study shows that event marketing is an appealing but risky strategy. Evoking surprise is an effective way to manage negative emotions such as embarrassment that can arise unintentionally during an event. Originality/value The research contributes to the understanding of the role of contradictory emotions in a specific social experience, namely, the event, and focuses on unplanned and undesired the affective contributions of customers.

In this paper, we use choice architecture techniques to activate both social and personal norms, seeking to increase pro-environmental choices and to better understand the effect of such norm types on post-choice emotional responses. In four experiments, we make different social or personal norms salient by aligning choice environments with psychosocial mechanisms that activate different types of norms. We use different choice architecture techniques to change information, alter product sets, and generate the social consequences of choices. The target behavior, purchasing a recycled paper notebook, is captured through direct purchase behaviors or willingness to pay commitments. We find that choice architecture activates personal but not social norms, and that associated positive and negative emotions (guilt, shame, regret and pride) are elicited by choices but not by willingness to pay. Moreover, manipulating choice environment moderates the relationship between choice and norm-related emotions, such that positive emotional responses seem to be stronger than negative ones. The results suggest that choice architecture interventions can activate individual level beliefs about sustainability and help reduce the attitude-behavior gap.

Background: The expansion of e-commerce and online orders have led to companies creating new marketing strategies, where impulsive purchases are important in order to boost sales. However, this also has negative aspects concerning overconsumption and the environmental impact. Consumers are more likely to have negative post-purchase emotions when making an impulsive purchase, and thus are more prone to return products. This research aims at creating a deeper understanding about consumers’ post-purchase emotions after making an impulsive purchase and how a product return affects the post-purchase emotions.    Problem discussion: Impulsive buying is critical for online stores and retailers are actively trying to increase these purchases for all customers, but at the same time, there is a growing number of product returns. This makes it important for firms to understand how consumers think and react to an impulsive purchase, since this supposedly has an impact on product returns. By providing a deeper understanding regarding the consumer’s post-purchase emotions one can specify such reactions on shoppers and help future marketing activities preventing consumers’ negative emotions in the purpose of increasing organizational profitability and decreasing the environmental impact.    Purpose: The purpose of this research is to build a theory that will provide organizations with knowledge about the chosen segment of Swedish women in the age 18-35 post-purchase emotions after impulsive buying. The findings of this study can contribute with additional insights to previous theoretical knowledge about post-purchase emotions after impulsive shopping.   Method: This qualitative research has been conducted by using 14 semi-structured interviews with the chosen segment of Swedish females in the age 18-35 who had previously shopped impulsively online and returned products. For the data analysis, an interpretative phenomenological analysis was used, providing the research with reflections regarding the perspective of the participants’ experiences of impulsive shopping and their post-purchase emotions.  Results: This research indicates that the participants generally held a negative view of impulsive buying, where they reduced/strengthened their post-purchase emotions through three rationalizations which were named by the authors “Social Proof”, “Use-Principle” and “Limited Funds”. When making a product return, the participants either had strengthened emotions or the negative emotions were turned into positive emotions. This was connected to three themes found by the authors which were called “Income”, “Return Policy”, and “Social and Environment”. The analyzed findings were presented in a developed framework.

碩士
國立交通大學
管理科學系所
102
When consumers purchase some items, it might induce impulse buying behavior. For consumers, different impulsive buying behavior afterwards to bring their feeling may be different. With literature review to understand the analysis in these variables of personality, impulse buying and post-purchase emotions. We can find personality and impulse buying has many different classification to select proper classification for the research. The research used internet questionnaire survey method. The samples taken were college students. Pretest questionnaire and formal questionnaire were totally 426 vaild questionnaire. The study results showed , compare to prudents , hedonics is inclined to impulse buying behavior. Blind impulse will be post-purchase regret . After impulse Buying behavior, compare to people without negative information , people who has negative information have higher post-purchase regret. After impulse Buying behavior, compare to people who without positive information , people who has positive information have higher post-purchase satisfaction.

碩士
國立中山大學
企業管理學系研究所
95
This article examines whether price discrimination affects consumer price perceptions and emotions. Questionnaires involving various purchasing scenarios indicate that all kinds of price discrimination decrease the internal reference price of those who have to pay the original (higher) price. These effects of price discrimination on consumers’ internal reference price are moderated by the discount depth. The deeper discount that the seller offers to the consumers, the larger the internal reference decreases. Further, when subjects were told that there is one consumer buy the product or service at the lower price (enjoying the price discount), they have negative emotion if they can have spend time looking for price-off coupons. But the other price discrimination such as VIP discount does not elicit consumers’ negative emotion.

碩士
中原大學
企業管理研究所
106
Since the implementation of the Consumer Protection law 1994, consumers'' rights have been paid more attention, and nowadays consumers pay more value on how much they are being given compared to what they paid out, and some consumers have excessive expansion of self-awareness, require high service level, if it is not achieved the companies is reduced, negative emotions will be generated, also the degree of satisfaction to. On the other hand, the various consuming environments created by the companies, such as sales in limited time period and other marketing practices, all make consumers complete the purchase under the pressure and uncertainty, if the product does not meet the expectations of customers, it will lead to consumer dissatisfaction and negative thinking with the companies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore whether consumers with different personality traits have anything to do with the degree of regret after purchase, and whether regret after purchase will affect the level of consumers’ future satisfaction, and explore if different shopping situation has interference effect to the degree of regret after purchase. According to the literature, Jerry (1993)defined personality is an individual with unique thinking, affection and behavior pattern, and regret is a mind set that combines emotion and cognition (Wrosch and Heckhausen, 2002). And regret is a kind of negative emotion, not sure of the good or bad results creates the uncertainty, it can lead to the result of regret (Joseph-Williams, Edwards, and Elwyn, 2011). In different consumption situations, uncertainty may lead to consumers'' regret, and this study finds two kinds of situation from the literature, namely counterfactual thinking and decision reversibility: counterfactual thinking is to do with the comparison of the facts that have occurred with other options, a thinking pattern that is uncertain about one''s choice is created (Kahneman and Miller, 1986); reversible decision-making is the possibility of retrieving or offsetting ones own choice (Zeelenberg and Pieters, 1999). This study is experimental, according to 2 (A/B personality traits) ×4 (upward counterfactual thinking, downward counterfactual thinking, reversible decision-making, irreversible decision-making)- to design situational questionnaires with fictional content, to observe the influence of independent variables on the dependent variables. A total of 665 questionnaires were distributed in this study, 403 of which were valid questionnaires. 262 were invalid questionnaires, and the effective questionnaire recovery rate was 60.2%, and statistical analysis is done by SPSS.The results reveal that the A/B personality traits have significant effects on regret after purchase, and regret after purchase has partially mediation effect on personality traits and satisfaction, in the aspect of situational interference, upward counterfactual thinking and downward counterfactual thinking, has no interference effect on the relation of personality trait and the regret after purchase, on the contrary, the reversible decision-making and irreversible decision-making have interference effect, it means the situation in that decision is reversible and decision is irreversible would affect the degree of regret of the customer. Therefore, the A/B personality trait has the actual difference on the emotion of regret after purchase, companies can divide the customer group into A and B personality traits, and have marketing strategies for consumers with different traits. In the situation of upward counter-factual thinking and downward counter-factual thinking, there is no influence on the degree of regret of the consumer after purchase. Conversely, the situation of reversible decision-making and irreversible decision-making is influential, and the we suggectcompanys can create the situation to reduce the degree of regret of the consumer. On the consumer side, there is indeed a difference in the sentiment of regret after purchase between consumers who have different personality traits, therefore, manufacturers can have the sales strategies formulated according to customers with different traits, in terms of manufacturers, different shopping situation will affect consumers'' feeling of regret, so if manufacturers create the wrong consumption situation, it will lead to the negative feelings of consumers.

Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die Untersuchung des negativen Einflusses der positiv emotionalen Online-Rezensionen auf das Konsumentenverhalten in der Nachkaufphase. Auf Basis von umfassenden Literaturauswertungen erfolgten die Erarbeitung einer definitorischen Grundlage von Online-Rezensionen und die Systematisierung bisheriger Erkenntnisse zum Einfluss der positiv emotionalen Online-Rezensionen. Unter Nutzung von Informationsverarbeitungs-, Emotions- und Verhaltenstheorien wurde ein theoretisch-konzeptioneller Bezugsrahmen geschaffen. Zur Überprüfung des Untersuchungsmodells und der darin postulierten Wirkungsbeziehungen wurde eine standardisierte Online-Befragung durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse konnten den negativen Einfluss der positiv emotionalen Online-Rezensionen in der Nachkaufphase bestätigen. Zudem konnte mithilfe einer Kausalanalyse gezeigt werden, dass solche Online-Rezensionen in der Nachkaufphase negative Emotionen (z. B. Enttäuschung und Bedauern) hervorrufen können, wenn die Erwartung der Kunden im Nachhinein nicht übertroffen wird. Des Weiteren zeigt die Arbeit, dass die ausgelösten Emotionen zu unterschiedlichen Verhaltensabsichten führen.:Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis IV Tabellenverzeichnis VI Abkürzungsverzeichnis IX 1 Einleitung 1 1.1 Relevanz der Arbeit 1 1.2 Problemstellung und Zielsetzung 3 1.3 Aufbau der Arbeit 11 1.4 Bestandsaufnahme 15 2 Online-Rezensionen 16 2.1 Definition und Einordnung 16 2.2 Entwicklung und aktueller Stand der Forschung 17 2.3 Zwischenfazit 22 3 Informationsverarbeitungstheorien 23 3.1 Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen 23 3.1.1 Stochastische Erklärungsansätze 24 3.1.2 Neobehavioristische Erklärungsansätze 25 3.1.3 Kognitive Erklärungsansätze 26 3.2 Modi der Informationsverarbeitung 27 3.2.1 Elaboration-Likelihood-Modell (ELM) 29 3.2.2 Heuristisch-systematisches Modell (HSM) 31 3.2.3 Affekt-Infusion-Modell (AIM) 33 3.2.4 Wahrnehmung und Verarbeitung der positiven Online-Rezensionen 35 3.2.5 Wahrnehmung und Verarbeitung der emotionalen Online-Rezensionen 39 3.3 Einflussfaktoren der Informationswahrnehmung 40 3.3.1 Narrativität 41 3.3.2 Hedonistische und utilitaristische Konsummotive 42 3.3.3 Wahrgenommene Ähnlichkeit 44 3.4 Vertrauen als Informationsverarbeitungsergebnis 48 3.5 Zwischenfazit 52 4 Analyse des Konsumentenverhaltens in der Nachkaufphase 54 4.1 Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen 54 4.1.1 Confirmation/Disconfirmation-Paradigma 55 4.1.2 Sonstige Erklärungsansätze 58 4.2 Emotionen und Emotionstheorien 60 4.2.1 Definitorisches Verständnis der Emotion 60 4.2.2 Lernpsychologische Emotionstheorien 66 4.2.3 Evolutionspsychologische Emotionstheorien 66 4.2.4 Kognitiv-physiologische Emotionstheorien 70 4.2.5 Kognitive Emotionstheorien 72 4.2.6 Die Messung der Emotionen 73 4.3 Rolle der Emotionen in der Nachkaufphase 75 4.3.1 Forschungsstand 75 4.3.2 Negative Emotionen: Enttäuschung, Ärger, Bedauern 79 4.4 Zwischenfazit 82 5 Verhaltensabsicht als Konsequenz in der Nachkaufphase 83 5.1 Definitorische Grundlagen und aktueller Forschungsstand 83 5.2 Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen 88 5.3 Emotionen und Verhaltensabsicht 89 5.4 Zwischenfazit 92 6 Entwicklung des Untersuchungsrahmens 93 6.1 Vorstudie 93 6.3 Konzeptualisierung der Konstrukte des Untersuchungsmodells 101 6.3.1 Konzeptualisierung der Konstrukte (Informationsverarbeitung) 101 6.3.2 Konzeptualisierung der Konstrukte (Nachkaufverhalten) 103 6.4 Operationalisierung der Konstrukte 104 6.4.1 Vorgehensweise der Operationalisierung 104 6.4.2 Operationalisierung der Konstrukte (Informationsverarbeitung) 106 6.4.3 Operationalisierung der Konstrukte (Nachkaufverhalten) 112 6.5 Entwicklung der Hypothesen des Untersuchungsmodells 119 6.5.1 Hypothesen zur Informationsverarbeitung 119 6.5.2 Hypothesen zur Analyse des Nachkaufverhaltens 123 6.6 Das Untersuchungsmodell im Überblick 127 7 Grundlagen der empirischen Untersuchung 130 7.1 Konzeption der empirischen Untersuchung 130 7.1.1 Erhebungsdesign 130 7.1.2 Datenerhebung 131 7.2 Datenprüfung, -bereinigung und -aufbereitung 132 7.2.1 Datenprüfung hinsichtlich der Durchklicker 132 7.2.2 Datenprüfung hinsichtlich der Ausreißer 132 7.2.3 Datenprüfung hinsichtlich der Repräsentativität 133 7.2.4 Datenprüfung hinsichtlich des Nonresponse-Bias 135 7.2.5 Datenprüfung hinsichtlich des Common-Method-Bias 136 8 Empirische Ergebnisse 138 8.1 Manipulationscheck 138 8.2 Durchführung einer exploratorischen Faktorenanalyse 140 8.3 Strukturgleichungsmodellierung 146 8.3.1 Grundlagen der Kausalanalyse 146 8.3.2 Prüfung auf Methodeneffekte 151 8.3.3 Gütekriterien der Messmodelle 153 8.3.4 Ergebnisse der Überprüfung der Messmodelle 159 8.3.5 Gütekriterien des Strukturmodells 166 8.3.6 Ergebnisse der Überprüfung des Strukturmodells 168 8.3.7 Prüfung der Moderatoreffekte 179 8.3.8 Prüfung der Mediatoreffekte 186 8.3.9 Prüfung der Kontrollvariablen 191 9 Schlussfolgerung 192 9.1 Zusammenfassende Betrachtung 192 9.2 Theoretischer Erkenntnisbeitrag 197 9.3 Methodischer Erkenntnisbeitrag 198 9.4 Limitierungen der Arbeit 199 9.5 Implikationen für die Forschung und Praxis 201 9.5.1 Implikationen für die zukünftige Forschung 201 9.5.2 Implikationen für die Praxis 202 Anhang 206 Literaturverzeichnis 217

博士
中國文化大學
國際企業管理學系
104
Regret is the negative emotion occurring most frequently in consumers after assessing the results of their purchase decisions. Extant literature has shown that regret has a negative impact on customer satisfaction and a positive impact on switching intention, and thus impedes the establishment of a long-term relationship between a brand and its customers. Therefore, to clarify the relationship between a brand and the post-purchase regret of its consumers will help to build up a brand name and develop the related brand loyalty in consumers. This study aims to use an empirical study to clarify the relationship between the actual and the ideal self-congruence of a brand and post-purchase regret, and to investigate the mediation mechanism of emotional attachment for the purpose of explaining the relationship between the two variables. This study intends to use the brands of smartphone as object, adopting questionnaire online survey for collecting data throughout the related smartphone websites of Taiwan area. The survey centers on those consumers who choose and purchase a smartphone in person. The research results find the actual self-congruence and post-purchase regret shows a significant negative relationship, and that the mediating effect of emotional attachment is supported. But the effect of the ideal self-congruence on post-purchase regret is insignificant as shown by the results. The findings of this study will contribute to the literature on branding and customer relationship. Finally, the study discusses the important managerial and academic implications of these findings and presents suggestions for future research.

To compare both concepts, the causative variables of recommendations generation will be analysed in one of the most important economic activities, the tourism sector. Tourism literature recognizes the importance of emotions, satisfaction and post-purchase behaviour, and diverse studies show emotions as antecedent of satisfaction and behavioural intentions. Some studies have found a positive relationship between satisfaction and the intention to recommend, but other authors raise doubts about the existence of this relationship.

One convenient way of describing consumer behavior both off-line and online is to present the topic as a model representing the steps typical consumers go through when they acquire the goods and services they desire. These steps are Need Recognition, Information Search, Pre-purchase Alternative Evaluation, Purchase, Consumption and Post Consumption Evaluation (Blackwell, Miniard & Engel, 2001). Although not every consumer goes through every step for every purchase, this model is a useful heuristic for organizing the study of consumer behavior and serves as a way to describe online consumer behavior as well. In the Need Recognition stage consumer behavior is stimulated by needs and wants. Needs are the abstract categories that consumers require in order to survive, function and thrive. Wants are the specific objects or mechanisms that consumers learn will enable them to satisfy their needs. Consumer needs are few, universal and inborn. Wants are acquired through individual learning histories defined by the time, place and context of the consumers’ life. Consequently, wants are many, individual and varied. Each consumer is born with the same needs and learns what will satisfy those needs through the experience of being reared within a specific society, time and place. Marketers recognize that consumers have shared needs and seek to develop brands as the specific want-satisfying ways in which consumers can gratify their needs. Table 1 presents a summary of consumer needs and wants (Foxall & Goldsmith, 1997). Physiological needs derive from the fact that consumers are physiological creatures. The social needs come from the fact that consumers are social animals. Hedonic needs describe the needs consumers have for pleasurable sensations for the five senses. Experiential needs arise because consumers are saturated with feelings and emotions that they constantly seek to modify. Cognitive needs come from the curious, inquiring cerebral cortex that wants to know about its environment. Finally, consumers have egos, a sense of self-identity, they want to express, usually through symbols. Each consumer is born with these mind/body “systems” and spends much time and energy seeking to satisfy the requirements these systems impose. Products (goods, services and information) can be multidimensional (Freiden, Goldsmith, Hofacker, & Takacs, 1998). That is, consumption of a given product can simultaneously satisfy more than one need, as buying and wearing an item of clothing protects the wearer from the elements (physiological), attracts the opposite sex (social), is comfortable to the skin (hedonic), makes the wearer feel sexy (experiential) and represents the self-concept and values of the wearer (psychological). Consuming a news magazine might satisfy cognitive needs as well as psychologically symbolic ones; the reader acquires some desired information and shows that he/she is a responsible citizen. Moreover, consumers might buy many different products to satisfy the same needs, as where designer brand names are wanted for clothing, furniture, perfumes and cars to symbolize social status. This theory of motivation can be used to explain the motivations for participation in virtual communities. Belonging to a virtual community fulfills some of the social need for belonging and fellowship. Group participation can yield feelings of fun, excitement and pleasure. The community can be an important source of information that can satisfy the cognitive need to know. Membership can be used symbolically to express identity. Thus, much like the consumption of goods, services

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of experiential marketing on experiential values of young customers and respectively on their satisfaction and word of mouth, intention to pay more and revisit. Primary data were gathered through questionnaires conducted with 489 respondents to examine young customers' experiences in well-known grocery retails in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Structural equation modelling using partial least square (PLS) method results were adequate in terms of reliability and validity. Empirical results revealed that some of strategic experiential modules and service quality perceptions of young customers have positive influences on customer experiences (functional and emotional). This research contributes to shed light on the role of shopping experiences of young retail consumers on experiential values, customer satisfaction, and post-purchase attitudes. It is anticipated that by filling this knowledge gap, strengthening retail-shopping strategies, which require an adjustment in the current business environment, can be developed.