Product Contagion: Changing Consumer Evaluations through Physical Contact with “Disgusting” Products

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Marketing Research

• Publication date

  2007-05-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1509/jmkr.44.2.272
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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