Curvy digital marketing designs: virtual elements with rounded shapes enhance online click-through rates

D Biswas, A Abell, R Chacko - Journal of Consumer Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With the growing prevalence of digital platforms for online shop**, advertising, and
marketing activities in general, it is imperative to better understand how designs of virtual …

The taste & affect music database: Subjective rating norms for a new set of musical stimuli

D Guedes, M Prada, MV Garrido, E Lamy - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
Music is a ubiquitous stimulus known to influence human affect, cognition, and behavior. In
the context of eating behavior, music has been associated with food choice, intake and …

The connotative meanings of sound symbolism in brand names: A conceptual framework

K Motoki, J Park, A Pathak, C Spence - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Phonetic elements of brand names can convey a range of specific meanings. However, an
integrated understanding of the sound symbolism of brand names remains elusive. Here, we …

Perturbations in the wild: Leveraging human-written text perturbations for realistic adversarial attack and defense

T Le, J Lee, K Yen, Y Hu, D Lee - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.10346, 2022 - arxiv.org
We proposes a novel algorithm, ANTHRO, that inductively extracts over 600K human-written
text perturbations in the wild and leverages them for realistic adversarial attack. Unlike …

Sonic branding: A narrative review at the intersection of art and science

C Spence, S Keller - Psychology & Marketing, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The field of sonic branding/marketing has grown rapidly in recent years, as has commercial
interest in more science‐based approaches to the practice, particularly as more brands and …

How language arousal affects purchase intentions in online retailing? The role of virtual versus human influencers, language typicality, and trust

B Wang, Y Han, J Kandampully, X Lu - Journal of Retailing and Consumer …, 2025 - Elsevier
Despite the growing popularity of adopting various language strategies to boost business in
online retailing and livestreaming, the effectiveness of such strategies employed by different …

Meaning beyond lexicality: Capturing pseudoword definitions with language models

AG de Varda, D Gatti, M Marelli… - Computational …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Pseudowords such as “knackets” or “spechy”—letter strings that are consistent with the
orthotactical rules of a language but do not appear in its lexicon—are traditionally …

Enjoying art: an evolutionary perspective on the esthetic experience from emotion elicitors

F Serrao, A Chirico, A Gabbiadini, A Gallace… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The ubiquity of human art prompted evolutionary psychologists to explore its origins as a
potential adaptation to the environment. Here we focus on emotionally charged art and posit …

People with high autistic traits show fewer consensual crossmodal correspondences between visual features and tastes

N Chen, K Watanabe, M Wada - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Crossmodal correspondences between visual features (eg, color/shape) and tastes have
been extensively documented in recent years. Visual colors and shapes have been shown …

Language evolution: examining the link between cross-modality and aggression through the lens of disorders

A Benítez-Burraco, L Progovac - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We demonstrate how two linguistic phenomena, figurative language (implicating cross-
modality) and derogatory language (implicating aggression), both demand a precise degree …