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JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.102961
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Eco-label; Design and feature complexity; Processing fluency; Zoom-in feature; Sustainable products
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This paper proposes that providing a zoom-in feature and using eco-labels with high design complexity and low feature complexity enhances consumer evaluations of sustainable products. Designing visually appealing and easy-to-understand eco-labels can increase product evaluations.
Noticeable and comprehensible eco-labels are needed to promote sustainable products. So far, researchers have mostly studied consumers' evaluations of eco-labels, without analyzing eco-label's visual complexity. Through two experimental studies this paper proposes that consumers' evaluations of sustainable products increase when zoom-in feature provided in online stores, and they are labelled through eco-labels that have high design and low feature complexity due to increased perceptual fluency. The findings demonstrate that while design complexity increases consumer product evaluations due to increased perceptual fluency, feature complexity increases instead of decreases - consumers' evaluations due to conceptual - and not perceptual - fluency. Consequently, it is advised to design and adapt eco-labels easy-to-understand, visually eye-catching and highly visible (i.e., in large size) to enhance ease of processing and increase product evaluations.
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