2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Use of Childhood Icons in Nostalgic Appeals for Charity.
Authors : Altaf Merchant, Kathryn LaTour, John B. Ford, Michael S. LaTour
Published in: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Drawing on the Past to Shape the Future of Marketing
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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In the current inquiry we add to the emerging research (Ford and Merchant, 2010; Merchant, Ford and Rose, 2011; Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Shi and Feng, 2011) on the influence of nostalgia on charitable donations, by examining the role of childhood icons. We contend that marketers can bank on the value of consumer memories but there are aspects, like icons, that they shouldn’t messed with when trying to appeal to the past, such as PBS’ move to promoting Cookie Monster as Veggie Monster.