Giving AI a Human Touch: Highlighting Human Input Increases the Perceived Helpfulness of Advice from AI Coaches

Y Zhang, MA Tuk, AK Klesse - Journal of the Association for …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
How can we increase the acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) coaching advice? Across
five studies (N= 3, 780), we document that people perceive AI advice as more helpful if …

Acquiring customers via referral reward programs versus advertising: Who is more likely to provide future referrals?

D Kuang, B Ma, X Li - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Referral reward programs (RRPs) are an emerging method of attracting new customers.
These programs are not only efficient but are also believed to attract customers of higher …

AI in the spotlight: The impact of artificial intelligence disclosure on user engagement in short-form videos

H Chen, P Wang, S Hao - Computers in Human Behavior, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper aims to investigate how AI disclosure affects user engagement intention. We try
to comprehensively explore the fundamental mechanisms behind AI disclosure and user …

Who is more likely to initiate referrals? Effect of consumer's regulatory focus on referral intention

H Jin, S Lu, K Wang - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Under the context of the online referral reward program (ORRP), this research explores the
effect of consumers' regulatory focus (promotion-focused vs. prevention-focused) on their …

Customer-to-customer communication: Referral of high and low involvement products through stimulated word-of-mouth

B Bifkovics, E Malota, LN Faria… - Journal of Promotion …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Referral reward programs (RRPs), considered as a form of stimulated word-of-mouth
(WOM), provide incentives to existing customers to bring in new customers. The research …

The effects of similarity in supplier referral programs on peer-to-peer platforms: From the coopetition perspective

Y Zou, Y Zhang, X Lu - Electronic Markets, 2024 - Springer
Peer-to-peer platforms, such as Uber and Airbnb, are increasingly leveraging referral
programs to attract new suppliers in addition to new customers (aka supplier-get-supplier …

Influencer-generated content on social media: how does influencers' self-disclosure affect followers' purchase intentions?

H Zhang - Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study investigates the effects of two types of self-disclosure by influencers (ie
personal self-disclosure and professional self-disclosure) on followers' parasocial …

The effect of referral tasks on customers' referral likelihood on social platforms

S Ma, Q Xie, J Wang, J Dong - Nankai Business Review International, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Customer referral programs (CRPs) are popular; however, they often generate low
referral rates. The authors propose that certain CRP referral tasks may hinder consumers' …

It's not just “who” you know, but “how” you know them: how social and commercial relationships differentially influence customer discounts

B Johnson, WT Ross - Journal of Research in Marketing and …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to contribute to previous research on customer
relationships by quantitatively examining differences in the monetary benefits obtained by …

Dollar or percentage? The effect of reward presentation on referral likelihood

H Chen, S Hao - Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Addressing the significant differences between referral programs and traditional
promotional marketing, this paper aims to investigate and examine the impact of how reward …