More than words: The influence of affective content and linguistic style matches in online reviews on conversion rates

S Ludwig, K De Ruyter, M Friedman… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Customers increasingly rely on other consumers' reviews to make purchase decisions
online. New insights into the customer review phenomenon can be derived from studying …

The impact of online review content and linguistic style matching on new product sales: The moderating role of review helpfulness

O Topaloglu, M Dass - Decision Sciences, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the moderating role of review helpfulness on the effects of online
review content and linguistic style matching on new product sales. Using data from 105,494 …

It's not just what you say, but how you say it: The effect of language style matching on perceived quality of consumer reviews

AX Liu, Y Xie, J Zhang - Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores the role of language style in the perceived quality of online reviews.
Drawing from research in psychology and sociology, we posit that language style matching …

Online persuasion: How the written word drives WOM: Evidence from consumer-generated product reviews

J Li, L Zhan - Journal of Advertising Research, 2011 - journalofadvertisingresearch.com
Consumer-generated product reviews are important sources of information for producers
and consumers. This research includes two studies designed to investigate how language …

Enhancing the helpfulness of online consumer reviews: the role of latent (content) factors

V Srivastava, AD Kalro - Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Past empirical studies have analysed the influence of manifest online review content factors
and the reviewer-related factors on online review helpfulness. However, the influence of …

The effects of negatively valenced emotional expressions in online reviews on the reviewer, the review, and the product

JAG Folse, MD Porter III, MB Godbole… - Psychology & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The authors examine the effects of negatively valenced emotional expressions (NVEE; eg,
intense language, all caps, exclamation points, emoticons) in online reviews and reveal …

Exploring the influence of online reviews and motivating factors on sales: A meta-analytic study and the moderating role of product category

K Li, Y Chen, L Zhang - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Online reviews, which significantly influence product sales, have been a central research
topic in the field of marketing. Meanwhile, some motivating factors related to online retailers …

Perceived helpfulness of online consumer reviews: The role of message content and style

RM Schindler, B Bickart - Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of online reviews written by consumers makes possible an examination of how the
content and style of these word‐of‐mouth messages contribute to their helpfulness. In this …

Balance and sequence in online reviews: How perceived usefulness affects attitudes and intentions

N Purnawirawan, P De Pelsmacker… - Journal of interactive …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper is the first study that investigates the impact of balance (the ratio of positive and
negative reviews) and sequence (the order in which the reviews are presented) of a set of …

When and how managers' responses to online reviews affect subsequent reviews

Y Wang, A Chaudhry - Journal of Marketing Research, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, the authors investigate the externalities of managers' responses (MRs) to
online reviews on popular travel websites. Specifically, the authors examine the effect of …