Salient Effects of Publicity in Advertised Brand Recall and Recognition: The List-Strength Paradigm

Previous research has demonstrated that preexposure of publicity about advertising campaigns facilitates recall of subsequently advertised brands. In this paper, we investigate the potential inhibitive effect; that is, preexposure of publicity can suppress retrieval of other nonpublicized brands that would otherwise have been retrieved. The inhibitive effect was examined in the list-strength paradigm, which posits that strengthened items in a...