Categorization Reduces the Effect of Context On Hedonic Preference
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2009
Journal / Book Title
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Abstract
When moderately hedonically positive test stimuli are presented following better-liked context stimuli, preferences between the test stimuli are reduced. This reduction in preference, hedonic condensation, occurs in settings that also produce negative hedonic contrast-the phenomenon in which moderately hedonically positive test stimuli seem less positive when they follow better-liked context stimuli. Subjects who were instructed that the context and test stimuli were from different categories exhibited less hedonic condensation. Those categories have smaller hedonic ranges than does the full stimulus set. The increase in preference magnitude with reduction in size of the hedonic range is predicted by Parducci's (1995) range-frequency model.
DOI
10.3758/APP.71.6.1228
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Zellner, Debra; Mattingly, Megan C.; and Parker, Scott, "Categorization Reduces the Effect of Context On Hedonic Preference" (2009). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 120.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/120
Published Citation
Zellner, D.A., Mattingly, M.C. & Parker, S. Categorization reduces the effect of context on hedonic preference. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 71, 1228–1232 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.71.6.1228
