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Transcending reality: Introducing mental time travel experiences and their ability to influence brand outcomes

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  • Barhorst, Jennifer Brannon
  • McLean, Graeme
  • Krey, Nina
  • Javornik, Ana
  • Evanschitzky, Heiner

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This research introduces the concept of mental time travel experience (MTTE) to the experiential marketing literature as a new type of experience that marketers can evoke to prompt consumers to mentally travel to a different time in one’s personal past or forwards in time to one’s personal future. Although research indicates that experiences are a cornerstone of building positive brand equity for firms, and that humans are rarely mentally in the present moment, there is a distinct gap regarding experiences that take place in consumers’ minds. We address this gap with the introduction and examination of MTTEs with two between-subjects studies with 1,879 participants. Results identify three factors important to the elicitation of MTTEs and mental time travel to the past as a key factor to influencing behavioral intentions. Finally, findings indicate that lower states of immersion have the propensity to strengthen mental time travel's effect on behavioral intentions.

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  • Barhorst, Jennifer Brannon & McLean, Graeme & Krey, Nina & Javornik, Ana & Evanschitzky, Heiner, 2023. "Transcending reality: Introducing mental time travel experiences and their ability to influence brand outcomes," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:164:y:2023:i:c:s0148296323002448
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113886
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