Measuring Emotional Responses to TV Commercials: The Warmth Monitor Modernized

Authors

  • Marc Roy Université du Québec à Rimouski

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18533/ijbsr.v4i12.640

Keywords:

Advertising effectiveness, commercial breaks, emotional response, felt mood, warmth monitor.

Abstract

Recently there has been a lot of interest in measuring emotional responses to advertising. This study focuses on the measurement of a specific emotional response to television advertising; warmth. Nearly thirty years ago, (Aaker, Stayman and Hagerty, 1986) developed a procedure they called the Warmth Monitor; “paper and pencil” self-report process recording method. The Warmth Monitor has been used in a large number of empirical studies in marketing since, but the most recent versions of the procedure are computerized. The two methods of administering the Warmth Monitor are compared in this research.

Author Biography

  • Marc Roy, Université du Québec à Rimouski
    Sciences de Gestion, Professeur

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2014-12-29

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Vol. 4 No. 12 (2014): December

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