Consumers Often Overestimate the Strength the Relationship Between Price and Quality

question 30

Multiple Choice

Consumers often overestimate the strength the relationship between price and quality, leading to an over-reliance on the price-quality heuristic.This is due to what phenomenon:

• A)endowment effect
• B)dominance effect
• C)selecting thinking
• D)framing effect
• E)None of the above is correct.

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