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This study finds that customer anxiety during SST transactions can reduce customers’ trust in the service provider. With calculators targeted to women and laundry products aimed at men, examples of identity-based labeling—or “identity appeals”—abound in advertising and marketing.Five studies show when and why such identity appeals backfire.The Civicom team helped set up a live demo very quickly for our client who will be using the platform for their upcoming research.

Firms tend to raise prices in response to higher demand, so observed relationships between price and quantity can be quite misleading.

The authors provide an adjustment that can be used when price experiments or instrumental variables are not available.

Open for comment; Service firms seeking prospective customers usually highlight the advantages of their offerings and downplay the tradeoffs.

This study suggests a different approach: Provide transparency into advantages as well as tradeoffs.

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