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Title: Hails From the Crypt: A Terror Management Health Model Investigation of the Effectiveness of Health-Oriented Versus Celebrity-Oriented Endorsements
Author(s): McCabe, Simon
Vail III, Kenneth E
Arndt, Jamie
Goldenberg, Jamie
Contact Email: simon.mccabe@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: terror management
health
persuasion
endorsement
Issue Date: Mar-2014
Date Deposited: 19-May-2015
Citation: McCabe S, Vail III KE, Arndt J & Goldenberg J (2014) Hails From the Crypt: A Terror Management Health Model Investigation of the Effectiveness of Health-Oriented Versus Celebrity-Oriented Endorsements. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40 (3), pp. 289-300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213510745
Abstract: Interfacing the terror management health model with the meaning transfer model, we offer novel hypotheses concerning the effectiveness of celebrity and medical endorsements for consumer products and health behavior decisions. Studies 1 and 2 revealed that, compared with control topic primes, death thoughts in focal attention increased the effectiveness of health-oriented (doctor) endorsers but not culture-oriented (celebrity) endorsers, whereas death thoughts outside of focal attention increased the effectiveness of culture-oriented endorsers but not health-oriented endorsers. Studies 3 and 4 then focus more specifically on the valence and specificity of culture-oriented endorsements, revealing that death thoughts outside focal attention increase the effectiveness of culture-oriented endorsers only on the behaviors specifically endorsed and only when the endorser is characterized as possessing cultural value. Discussion focuses on everyday management of existential concerns and implications for persuasive communications in the health domain.
DOI Link: 10.1177/0146167213510745
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