The Influence of Social Exclusion Types on Individuals' Willingness to Word-of-Mouth Recommendation.

ABSTRACT: As the pace of modern life accelerates, social exclusion occurs more and more frequently in interpersonal interactions. The type of social exclusion can lead to different psychological needs of individuals, and, thus, affects the tendency of word-of-mouth (WOM) recommendation. There are three experiments in this research. Experiment 1 explores the influence of social exclusion types on the willingness of WOM recommendation. The result shows that being rejected increases individuals' willingness to WOM recommendations while being ignored decreases individuals' willingness. Experiment 2 explores the internal psychological mechanism of the influence of social exclusion types on WOM recommendation behavior and proves the mediating role of psychological needs (affiliative-focused needs; power/p

SUBMITTER: Wenting F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9051444 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature