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  1. Impact of misleading/false advertisement to consumer behaviour

    Impact of misleading/false advertisement to consumer behaviour. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2018 Vol.16 No.4, pp.453 - 465

  2. Social Responsibility and Misleading Advertising of Health Products on

    Research on unfair advertising has been carried out from different approaches. Most research is accomplished from the perspective of legal regulations and codes of conduct, ... Specifically, the paper focuses on misleading advertising in relation to health-related products on the radio medium.

  3. Identifying Misleading Advertising

    A procedure for identifying misleading advertising is presented, based solely on measured consumer beliefs. An advertisement is misleading if an exposed group holds more false beliefs than a comparison group. When ten allegedly misleading advertisements were tested, two were identified as incrementally misleading, and four others were shown to ...

  4. Tackling false advertising and strengthening consumer protection in

    SUBMIT PAPER. Journal of General Management. Impact Factor: 2.1 / 5-Year Impact Factor ... (2021) Social responsibility and misleading advertising of health products on the radio: The opinion of the professionals. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18: 1-15 ... Journal of Advertising Research 51(3): 477-483 ...

  5. COVID-19 pandemic: An era of myths and misleading advertisements

    The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected nearly every aspect of human life in most of the countries of the world. Misinformation rapidly spreads from the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in various senses like fear, misrepresentations and contraindication assumption, etc. Millions of people are affected due to false and misleading advertisements. 1 According to the World Health ...

  6. Deceptive Claims Using Fake News Advertising: The Impact on Consumers

    Abstract. Fake news advertising—advertising that mimics legitimate news articles—can be harmful if it misleads consumers to take actions they otherwise would not have taken (e.g., purchase an inferior product). However, little is known about whether fake news ads bring in new customers or are merely viewed by people already in the market ...

  7. Exposing false advertising

    Our paper focuses on false advertising regarding a product's quality2 and law enforcement when advertising aims to reach a population that includes both rational and naïve consumers.3 Early contributions that also allow for false advertising include Nelson ( 1974 ), who distinguishes search and experience goods, and Schmalensee ( 1978 ), who ...

  8. Impact of Misleading Advertisements: Issues and Remedies

    Analisis Reaksi Customer Loyal Scarlett Whitening pada Misleading Advertising Paris Fashion Show 2022. Scarlett Whitening is one of the brands with the highest rating in the Shopee and Tokopedia Market Place with a market share of 18.9%. At the end of February 2022, Instagram was shocked by the news….

  9. Online shopping, misleading advertising and consumer protection

    10 Russell Smith, 'Deceptive and Misleading Conduct On-line Advertising and Business Practices' (Research Discussion Paper, Australian Institute of Criminology, 2000) 7. 11 Richard Raysman and Peter Brown, 'On-Line Advertising and Marketing', (1999) 222 NYLJ 53, quoted in Michael A Leon, 'Unauthorized Pop-up Advertising and the ...

  10. Impact of misleading/false advertisement to consumer behaviour

    False or misleading advertisements have, in the recent past been on the rise as a result of businesses seeking to compete for customers. Accuracy should entail full disclosure of all information because this is crucial in the marketing field where consumers expect to make informed decisions. In this study, it has been found that while misleading advertisements tend to provide overtly more ...

  11. Misleading Advertisements in India: A Comparative and Critical ...

    Hence, this paper aims to make a thorough, comprehensive, comparative and critical study of misleading advertisements in India, identify the hurdles to achieving the basic objects of the consumer welfare legislations to control misleading advertisements, and find out the solutions for the same in the Consumer Protection Bill 2015. undefined.

  12. Misleading Advertising: In Search of a Measurement Methodology

    misleading advertising are derived. Current concepts for detecting misleading advertising are reviewed and found wanting with respect to these criteria. Due to the orientation toward cases, misleading advertising can be detected only in specific instances, while judgments about a certain ad's capacity to mislead still must be made on intuitive ...

  13. The Ethics of False Advertising

    False advertisement, the use of misleading and untrue information to push a consumer product, is an unethical marketing ploy that has tricked consumers since the beginning of the consumer business industry. With the modern emergence of social media, consumers are now vulnerable than ever to falling victim to these unethical deceptive representations. The 'Fyre Festival' documentaries that ...

  14. What's Wrong with Misleading Advertising?

    SUBMIT PAPER. Asia-Pacific Journal of Management Research and Innovation. ... The present study examines the ethical issues involved in misleading advertising as perceived by the respondents. This study attempts to explore the various attributes that constitute misleading advertisement. ... (1973), "What Students Think of Advertising ...

  15. Full article: The power of advertising in society: does advertising

    However, Michel et al. (Citation 2019) note that recent research exploring subjective well-being has given little attention to the role of advertising, suggesting the link between advertising and individual well-being is not well understood. The authors propose that how advertising affects well-being may operate through two conflicting approaches.

  16. Impact of misleading/false advertisement to consumer behaviour

    H1: False or misleading advertising has an impact on consumer behaviour. H2: Gender factors into the vulnerability of consumers to false or misleading advertising. Research design The study used primary data and quantitative research methods to analyze the responses of 50 consumers who participated in the online study.

  17. Full article: Social media advertisements and their influence on

    6. Conclusion. The aim of this study was to determine the features of social media advertisements that influence consumer perception and their effect on purchase intention. Data was obtained with the help of a questionnaire and analyzed using exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods.

  18. PDF An Empirical Research on Misleading Advertisements and Its Impact on

    hypothesis to test is there a relationship between misleading ads and consumer purchase. Second hypothesis that we will be testing is whether there is any relationship between age and gender difference and susceptibility to misleading ads. 3.2 Research Design The type of study for this paper is descriptive (Under the descriptive study technique the

  19. Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

    The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons. It ...

  20. Impact of Media Advertisements on Consumer Behaviour

    This study intends to explore the importance of various media advertisements on consumer behaviour (CB) stages such as awareness (AWR), interest (INT), conviction (CON), purchase (PUR) and post-purchase (PPUR). The consumer expectations of information from various media such as TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and the Internet are entirely ...

  21. 'Einstein's death shattered Bose

    Despite their differences, Bose regarded Einstein as his master in physics. On 18 April 1955, Einstein died. The news shocked him into silence. He was writing a paper and was looking forward to ...

  22. Call for papers

    The Guide for Authors and link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal's homepage at: Guide for authors - European Journal of Operational Research - ISSN 0377-2217 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be sent electronically to GE (Sergio Vergalli) at Email: sergio.vergalli ...

  23. 2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years

    Here, we combine observed and reconstructed June-August (JJA) surface air temperatures to show that 2023 was the warmest NH extra-tropical summer over the past 2000 years exceeding the 95% ...