Forgiveness from Emotion Fit: Emotional Frame, Consumer Emotion, and Feeling-Right in Consumer Decision to Forgive

Three studies examine an emotion fit effect in the crisis communication, namely, the interaction between emotional frames of guilt and shame and consumer emotions of anger and fear on consumer forgiveness. Guilt-framing communication results in higher forgiveness than shame-framing for angry consume...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yaxuan Ran, Haiying Wei, Qing Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
fit
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01775/full