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- Social-issue advertising can strengthen the relationship between a company and its customers by conveying a social consciousness that aligns with the customers’ own.
- People can be motivated by a concern for appearances, demonstrating an egoistic-enhancement motivation in supporting corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
- The horizontal–vertical distinction could be a tool to expand understanding of how values correlate with advertising and consumer persuasion.
- Consumers with a strong vertical collectivistic orientation more likely perceived that their status could be increased through the consumption of the CSR advertisers’ product.
- Consumers younger than 30...