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RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT


ON

THE EFFECT OF HUMOR


ON
ADVERTISING CREDIBILITY & RECALL

PAWAN KUMAR
MBA (2ND YEAR)
UBS PURC LUDHIANA

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ABSTRACT

This study examines the effect of humor on the perceived credibility, character and
authority of an advertisement and on the recall of that advertisement.

Two groups of subjects were shown two television commercials: one humorous and
another non humorous. Subjects then filled out a questionnaire that solicited
information on their perception of the commercials credibility, authoritativeness, and
character. As well as their retention of the message. For the analysis of the datas
nonparametric test is done.

After the analysis it was observed that there is a major difference of impact of
humorous and non humorous type of advertisement on the subjects. The detailed result
is published in the research design chapter.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I owe a great many thanks to a great many people who helped and supported me during the
successful completion of this project

My deepest thanks to Lecturer, Mr.Shashi kapoor, the guide of the project for guiding and
correcting various documents of mine with attention and care.

I express my thanks to Mr.Tarun vashisth ,lecturer ,UBS, PURC, LUDHIANA for his
positive support and encouragement throughout the project period

I express my thanks to my friends, Ms. Megha dutta,Mr. Akhilesh Mittal,and Mr. Arvind Jain
for their moral and academic support throughout the project period.

PAWAN KUMAR

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CONTENTS
NO. CHAPTERS PAGE NO.
1 Introduction 5-7
2 Need of study 8
3 Review of literature 9-14
4 Purpose of the study 15
5 Methodology 16-17
6 Interpretations 18-24
7 Limitations 25
8 References 26

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INTRODUCTION

ADVERTISING
Advertising is any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, good, or
services by an identified sponsor. Ads can be a cost-effective way to disseminate messages,
whether to build a brand preference or to educate people.

SETTING THE ADVERTISEMENT OBJECTIVES


Advertising objectives can be classified according to whether their aim is to inform,
persuade, remind, reinforce. These goals correspond to different stages in the hierarchy-of
effects model.

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AWARENESS

KNOWLEDGE

LIKING

PREFERENCE
CONVICTION AND
PURCHASE
FIG: HIERARCHY OF EFFECT MODEL

So from seeing this model we can say that conviction and purchase depends upon awareness
and knowledge of the advertisement.

Thus its clear from the model that a marketer can use the consumer behavior in favors of its
product only if there is mass awareness among the consumer for the product.

Also its obvious that just awareness is not enough for conviction and purchase, a liking and
positive attitude is necessary for purchase behavior.

HUMOR AND ADVERTISING


These day we rarely see a television commercial which does not use humor to lure
customers. Advertiser continues to employ humor in their campaigns, apparently with some
success. Campaign of soft drink brand in India has proved that humor is effective.

Many practitioners favors the use of humor in advertising. They support the use
of humor because humorous ads may take longer to get on ones nerves
than serious ones which, because of their constant badgering may produce
resentment and hence and unfavorable attitude towards the product being
advertised.

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On the other hand ,critics of the use of humor in persuasive communication supply equally
convincing arguments .Claude Hopkins ,considered by many the father of modern
advertising, denounced the use of humor, claiming people donor buy from clowns. Roser
reeves described copy writer using humor as a group of dreaming, frustrated literary people
who want to have fun with words regardless of what it does to their sponsors sale.

Most critics in humor in advertising concur that humor may tend to entertain more than sell
and should therefore be avoided.

Humor may detract from the real selling information by focusing attention to itself rather than
the message it is designed to convey. As Weingarten explains.

The problem is that the humorous, understated maverick point of view often
obfuscates the content as the heavy emphasis on presentation gets in the way of product.

There is the chance then that while humor may improve attention, it may decrease
comprehension and overall message reception.

But despite these opposing argument. Humor continues to be used in advertising. It


continues to be used to take advantage of following theorized effect of humor:

1. Humor attracts attention and holds the audience.

2. Humor creates a relaxed, positive mood which will improve liking for the product
being advertised.

3. Because the advertiser is seen as willing to laugh about the product, the advertiser is
perceived as more honest

4. Because humor makes a message more memorable, it will be acted upon for a longer
period of time.

5. Because humor acts as a distractor, counter argument is inhibited, resulting in


increased persuation.

Results of research on the effectiveness of humor are contradictory .Two of the major areas
of emphasis in research on humor have been RECALL and source perception.

In these studies humor has been operationalised in the context of audio visual commercials.

RECALL

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Again there is a difference of opinion among scholars that a humorous advertisement does
have effect on audience ability to recall the message between a serious presentation and a
humorous presentation.

Till now there is not any undisputed notion evolved which is supportive to creative use of
advertising for higher recall value.

Few studies found that humor has a negative effect on recall of message.

CREDIBILITY

Its a matter of concern for research scholars that whether a humorous advertisement is more
credible or a serious one. However it might be possible that humorous advertisement may
attract more attention of the audience than a serious does, but as far as credibility is concern,
serious advertisement seems to be more credible.

NEED OF STUDY

Many studies examined the effect of humor on the audiences perception of the source. The
dependent variable ranged in operations from source character to safety, qualification, and
dynamism. Few of these studies found evidence that humor has a positive effect on source
perception.

The result of these studies on humor suggest that the effect of humor on recall is still unclear.
in some case humor in advertising may depress recall while in other cases it enhance recall.
And in others it probably doesnt matter whether one selects a humorous or serious approach.

While the result of the source perception studies can be utilized in planning advertisement
employing testimonials or single spokespersons they are not so readily applicable to other
type of advertisements. The question of these studies was how credible was the source?
The question, how credible was the message? Need to be answered.

Thats why I have decided to work on this ambiguous topic once more and have tried to find
out the result with greater accuracy and effectiveness.

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REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Till now many research been done on the same topic or related topic, but unfortunately no
concrete result been detected so far. Below is the excerpts of few of the research literatures.

Author: Sutherland, john, c.


Title: The effect of humor on advertising credibility

Abstract
A study examined the effect of humor on the perceived credibility, character, and
authority of an advertisement and on the recall of that advertisement.
Two groups of subjects each heard two radio spots announcements, one humorous and
one serious. Two different products were advertised, so that the first group of subjects,
117 college advertising students, were exposed to a serious commercial for one
product and a humorous spot for the other, while the second group, 132 students,
heard the opposite.

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The humorous and serious versions of each advertisement were identical in situation,
product information, basic sales appeal, and number of times the product name and
slogan war mentioned.
subjects then filled out a questionnaire that solicited information on their perception
of the commercial credibility, and character, as well as their retention of the message,
the result indicated that there was a significant difference between the two group for
each ad on the perceived humor of the message, however no difference in the subjects
ability to recall Copy points was found between the humorous and serious message.
Subjects rated the serious versions more credible than the humorous versions. The
results suggest that the use of humor will have little effect on recall, and that a serious
message is likely to be judged more credible and to have more authority than a
humorous add

Title: A Meta analysis of humor effects in advertisement


Author: Martin Misspend

Abstract

Although the pace of humor research in advertising has quickened over the past decades, the
body of empirical evidence regarding humor effects in advertising remains equivocal.
Previous
Qualitative reviews barely provide generalizable conclusions on the question if humor is
effective or when humor in advertising is effective. Both issues, the search for generalizable
results and for factors that moderate the impact of humor in advertising are specific tasks to
be addressed by application of a meta-analysis. Assumptions for the analysis are based on
theoretical models and on previous qualitative reviews.
Theoretical Models and Previous Qualitative Reviews

Two types of models, cognitive and affective, have been used to explain the impact of humor
in advertising. The models suggest a positive impact of humor on attitude towards the ad
(AAD),

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Attitude towards the brand (ABR), purchase intention and behavior.
Effects on attention, comprehension, recall, and recognition may be positive in case humor
impact follows an information processing perspective. However, if humor causes distraction,
humor decreases elaborate processing and reduces cognitive responses (CR); it harms
comprehension and probably also memory effects. The overall conclusions reached by the
authors of previous qualitative reviews are fairly consistent with respect to some of the
outcome
Variables. They infer that humor attracts attention and awareness, enhances source liking
(AADV), ad liking, and brand liking, but is not very effective in bringing about actions/sales.
However, it is not clear if humor detrimentally affects comprehension and recall or not, if it
enhances or decreases source credibility, and if it is more persuasive than serious messages or
not. Previous studies vary with respect to several characteristics related to product,
placement, humor, and method that have been discussed as possible moderating variables in
the literature. Advertisers believe that humor is best suited for low involvement products,
particularly for hedonic/feeling products compared to functional/ thinking products.
Humorous ads are said to be more successful for existing than for new products. Furthermore,
ad executives
Believe humor to be most suited in radio and TV-advertising compared to print advertising.
Humor seems to work best for younger and well-educated consumers, particularly males.
Two
Method factors may be important that allow for more control and should hence lead to
increased effects: the way the control ad is and if humor research is field research or
performed as
Laboratory study. The crucial moderating factor, however, is apparently the humorous
stimulus. Advertisers seem to conceive humor as the degree of personal recognition and
appreciation of humor. Humor ads that vary in the level of humor they evoke in the target
audience lead to variations in advertising effect variables as well. The relationship between
humor intensity and ad effectiveness can be conceived as either linear or curvilinear.

Method

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The literature search for the meta-analysis revealed 64 studies investigating the impact of
humor in advertising; 47 studies provided enough data to calculate relevant effect sizes. The
effect size
Metric selected for the analysis is the correlation coefficient between humor and dependent
variables. Since most papers reported multiple measures, also multiple effect sizes from
single studies for particular relationships were included. Altogether, 443 effect sizes were
available for the purpose of the meta-analysis. Integration of effect sizes is performed based
on sample size weighted and attenuation corrected correlations. In order to consider multiple
measures per study, correlations between the same constructs from a single study were
averaged for integration purposes. If the integration of effects sizes yielded heterogeneity, a
WLS regression
Analysis applying moderator variables was performed. Moderator variables were coded by
two coders based on information given in the studies.

Results

The integration results show that humor significantly enhances AAD, ABR, attention,
comprehension, cognitive responses, positive emotions, purchase intention, recall and
recognition. Humor reduces credibility and negative emotions. Humor has no impact on
AADV, distraction, and purchase behavior. The results of the moderator analysis come up
with rather
Consistent findings. Contrary to expectations, humor works better in influencing attitudes for
high involvement products and thinking products than for low involvement or feeling
products. No effects were found for established vs. new brands. Also media have an effect
that contradicts previous assumptions: humor effects are stronger for print media than for
broadcast media for AAD. Ads are also more liked when the program context is rather humor
incongruent than congruent. Repeated exposure enhances ABR, but shows no effect on other
dependent variables. Finally, reception in social group leads to less attention compared to
reception of humorous ads
Alone. No difference was found for different demographic groups. Also culture does not
influence attitudes and memory, but attention: humorous ads do enhance attention particularly
for US consumers compared to other countries. Methodological factors impact only the
attention measure such that more controlled ads and laboratory studies enhance the effects on
attention.

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Results of nonlinear regressions of humor intensity on ad effectiveness show that perceived
humor does not affect AAD or attention, but brand attitudes and memory. While ABR
increases
With perceived humor which is in line with the idea of conditioning theory, memory effects
rather follow a curvilinear relationship for humor intensity; particularly, they increase with
strong levels of humor intensity.

Title: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Humor on Advertising


This paper presents results of a meta-analysis performed using published results of
experimental
Studies on the effects of humor in advertising. Three categories of response variables were
considered as measures of effectiveness of advertising: cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral
constructs. Separate analyses were performed for each response variable to estimate the
combined effect sizes of humor in advertising and to assess the moderating effect of
methodological characteristics of the different studies. The results indicate that cognitive
measures are not affected by humor in ads, while attitude toward the ad, attitude toward the
brand, and purchase intention are higher in the presence of humor. In addition, recall of
humorous ads is stronger when humor is measured during the experiment rather than
manipulated and when the sample is exclusively male. Attitude toward the ad is also higher in
Studies whit measured humor.

Title: print and Television Advertisements and the Effects of Humor

Author: Elliott Sawyer

Abstract
This study investigates the use of humor in both Print and Television Advertisements to study
the persuasiveness of humor in advertising and the difference between the two mediums.
Zhang, Baize, and Altenburg all suggest that advertisements are much more attractive to a
consumer when using humor but they may not be as effective for selling the product. Strick,
van Baaren, Holland, van Knippenberg, and Zhang all suggest that humor does increase the

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positive attitudes towards the ad, but not necessarily towards the brand. This study bridges
the gap between other studies that focus primarily on either Television or Print ads.
Participants (N=27) completed measures of attitudes towards the ad, humor in the ad, and
purchase intent. The hypothesis that the humorous television ad would have the highest
attitudes and purchase intent out of all four categories was not supported by the data

Method

Participants:

Participants consisted of 27 undergraduate students from the University of Puget Sound. The
majority of the students came from First Year Communication Studies Courses. Participation
was volunteer and confidential. The participants were asked to complete a packet consisting
of three questionnaires twice. The first set was finished after viewing the print stimulus
material, and the second was completed after viewing the television stimulus material. The
questionnaires measured attitudes towards the ad, humor in ads, and purchase intent.
Participants were split up into two groups: one receiving both a print and television humorous
stimulus and the other receiving both a print and television non humorous stimulus.

Stimuli

All 4 stimuli were from Pepsi campaigns, and both non humorous stimuli were from the
newest 2009 campaign. The non-humorous print ad featured very bright colors with different
phrases with Os being filled instead with the new Pepsi logo. Also, different smiley faces
resembling emoticons were created out of the manipulation of the new logo. The non-
humorous television ad was very short at 30 seconds, and they also featured bright colors and
the replacement of Os with the new logo in positive phrases. The humorous print ad
displayed a monkey handing a Pepsi to a truck driver to bribe the driver for the Bananas in
the truck. The humorous television ad was about a minute and a half and featured a child
growing up and training to become a monk. At his initiation, he realizes that the symbol for
the monks is actually the top of a Pepsi can. So, he promptly crushes the can with his
forehead to gain the symbol and acceptance.

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Results

Means were first used to compute the difference between the non-humorous and humorous
stimuli in the print and television groups. Hypothesis 1 stated that Humorous television
group would have the highest ATA, PIS, and Brand. In table 1, this is proven to be false in a
statistically significant way for the ATA and Brand. The PIS does also show false, but not
statistically significant.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY


1. To study the effect of humor on the perceived character of an advertising?
2. To study the effect of humor on the perceived authority of an advertisement?
3. To Study the effect of humor on the perceived recall of an advertisement

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METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN
Two groups of subjects each watched two commercials one humorous and one serious. Two
different products were advertised ,so that one group of subjects were exposed to a serious
commercial for one product and a humorous spot for another, while the second group
watched the opposite as indicated in the diagram below.

GROUP 1 GROUP2
PRODUCT A SERIOUS HUMOROUS
PRODUCT B HUMOROUS SERIOUS

SAMPLE

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Subjects exposed to the PRODUCT a (COCACOLA), PRODUCT B (NIRMA) are being
chosen from male and female post graduation students of MBA.

STIMULI
To assure that the humorous television commercials used in the experiment would be
perceived as humorous, a simultaneous test of extent of humor present in the commercial is
done.

QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN
The questionnaire design combined elements of tests formerly employed by both Cantor and
Venus (1980) and Charles gruner (1967 and 1970).Identical for all groups the questionnaire
consisted of three parts

1) Basic demographic data


2) Data regarding recall of the advertisement
3) Data regarding authority of the advertisement
4) Data regarding character of the advertisement

Various factors been chosen to rate authority and character of the advertisement on
semantic differential scale.

These factors were presented to the subjects as two poles.

Factors for authoritativeness are

1) Reliable-Unreliable

2) Informative-Uninformative

3) Intelligent-Unintelligent

4) Valuable-Worthless

Factors for character are

1) Honest-Dishonest
2) Friendly-Unfriendly
3) Pleasant-Unpleasant
4) Nice-Awful

DATA PROCESSING

Responses were coded, with open-ended question receiving a 3 for correct answer,
a 2 for partially correct response, and 1 for dont know. Semantic differentials

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were coded on a scale from 1-5 with 1 always the least favorable and 5 for most
favorable.

After the completion of survey data was analyzed by computer

The statistical package for the social sciences(spas) was used to perform general
frequency calculation and cross-tabulation of selected variables. MANN-WHITNEY
test is performed to determined statistical difference between means a 0.05 alpha
level was considered acceptable for statistical significance.

DATA FEEDING IN SPSS


Data for two experiments were feeded in the spss software,
There were two experiments.
1) Humorous and non humorous effect on subjects of coca cola commercials
2) Humorous and no humorous effect of normal commercials.

INTERPRETATIONS

NIRMA AD:

For both humorous and non humorous ads sig. value for different variable. Such as
gender, product recall, slogan recall, overall message recall,reliability,etc were found
different.
Below is the description for each variable differently:
Gender: a no difference hypothesis may be accepted, it means that there is no
relationship between gender and humorous/nonhumorous ads.

GET
FILE='C:\Users\PAWAN\Desktop\nirma spss.sav'.
DATASET NAME DataSet0 WINDOW=FRONT.
NPAR TESTS
/M-W= Q1 BY Q15(1 2)
/STATISTICS=DESCRIPTIVES

/MISSING ANALYSIS.

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NPar Tests

Test Statistics

GENDER

Mann-Whitney U 84.000

Wilcoxon W 189.000

Z -.742

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .458

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .541a

a. Not corrected for ties.

b. Grouping Variable: AD CODE

Product name
Slogan
Message
Feature

Of the above written group of variables only in the case of recall of message ,a no
difference hypothesis can be accepted.

In case of recall of product name,slogan,and product feature..there is a


significant difference between the effect of humorous and non humorous ads.

Descriptive Statistics

N Mean Std. Deviation Minimum Maximum

PRODUCT NAME 28 2.1071 .73733 1.00 3.00

SLOGAN 28 2.3929 .68526 1.00 3.00

FEATURE 28 1.9286 .71640 1.00 3.00

MESSAGE 28 2.1429 .70523 1.00 3.00

AD CODE 28 1.5000 .50918 1.00 2.00

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Test Statisticsb

PRODUCT
NAME SLOGAN FEATURE MESSAGE

Mann-Whitney U 20.000 12.500 34.000 68.500

Wilcoxon W 125.000 117.500 139.000 173.500

Z -3.869 -4.354 -3.203 -1.481

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .000 .000 .001 .138


a a a
Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .000 .000 .002 .178a

a. Not corrected for ties.

b. Grouping Variable: AD CODE

Reliability
Informative
Intelligence of ad
Valuable product
Of the above written variable humorous and non humorous ads have considerable effect
on reliability, informative ads, intelligence of ad, and perceived value of the product.

Test Statisticsb

RELIABILITY INFORMATION INTELLIGENT VALUABLE

Mann-Whitney U 29.000 32.000 14.500 22.500

Wilcoxon W 134.000 137.000 119.500 127.500

Z -3.321 -3.245 -3.948 -3.643

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .001 .001 .000 .000

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .001a .002a .000a .000a

a. Not corrected for ties.

b. Grouping Variable: AD CODE

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Honesty
Nice
Friendly
Pleasant

Of the above written variables humorous and non humorous ads have significant
effect on all of them it means that we can reject the no difference hypothesis.

Descriptive Statistics

N Mean Std. Deviation Minimum Maximum

HONEST 28 3.1786 .98333 1.00 5.00

FRIENDLY 28 2.9286 1.18411 1.00 4.00

PLEASANT 28 3.5357 .99934 2.00 5.00

NICE 28 3.1429 1.23871 1.00 5.00

AD CODE 28 1.5000 .50918 1.00 2.00

Test Statisticsb

HONEST FRIENDLY PLEASANT NICE

Mann-Whitney U 31.500 2.000 5.000 14.500

Wilcoxon W 136.500 107.000 110.000 119.500

Z -3.237 -4.692 -4.474 -4.069

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .001 .000 .000 .000

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .001a .000a .000a .000a

a. Not corrected for ties.

b. Grouping Variable: AD CODE

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COCA-COLA AD:

For both humorous and non humorous ads of cocacola I found different values of sig.

Below is the description of all the variables differently.


Gender: in case of response of different genders we cannt reject our no
difference hypothesis.

Test Statisticsc

GENDER

Mann-Whitney U 50.000

Wilcoxon W 105.000

Z .000

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) 1.000

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] 1.000a

Monte Carlo Sig. (2-tailed) Sig. 1.000b

95% Confidence Interval Lower Bound .861

Upper Bound 1.000

Monte Carlo Sig. (1-tailed) 95% Confidence Interval Lower Bound .281

Upper Bound .719

Sig. .500b

a. Not corrected for ties.

b. Based on 20 sampled tables with starting seed 299883525.

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Test Statisticsc

GENDER

Mann-Whitney U 50.000

Wilcoxon W 105.000

Z .000

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) 1.000

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] 1.000a

Monte Carlo Sig. (2-tailed) Sig. 1.000b

95% Confidence Interval Lower Bound .861

Upper Bound 1.000

Monte Carlo Sig. (1-tailed) 95% Confidence Interval Lower Bound .281

Upper Bound .719

Sig. .500b

a. Not corrected for ties.

c. Grouping Variable: ADCODE

Product recall
Slogan
Feature
Sales message
Of all the variables written above: based on the results found by spss data
processing we can say that only recall of sales message has sig.value more than .
05 . so in this variable only we can accept the no difference hypothesis.

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Test Statisticsb

PRODUCTREC SLOGANRECAL FEATURERECA SALESMESSAG


ALL L LL E

Mann-Whitney U 21.000 19.000 17.000 49.000

Wilcoxon W 76.000 74.000 72.000 104.000

Z -2.591 -2.554 -2.690 -.108

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .010 .011 .007 .914

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .029a .019a .011a .971a

a. Not corrected for ties.

b. Grouping Variable: ADCODE

Reliability
Information
Intelligent
valuable

Of the above written variables only in case of reliability, we can accept the no
difference hypothesis. In the rest of cases,nonhumorous and humorous cases hav
different impact on
subjects perceived reliability,information,and valuability.

Test Statisticsb

RELIABILITY INFORMATIVE INTELLIGENT VALUABLE

Mann-Whitney U 27.000 19.000 5.000 14.000

Wilcoxon W 82.000 74.000 60.000 69.000

Z -1.863 -2.527 -3.823 -2.865

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .062 .012 .000 .004

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .089a .019a .000a .005a

a. Not corrected for ties.

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Test Statisticsb

RELIABILITY INFORMATIVE INTELLIGENT VALUABLE

Mann-Whitney U 27.000 19.000 5.000 14.000

Wilcoxon W 82.000 74.000 60.000 69.000

Z -1.863 -2.527 -3.823 -2.865

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .062 .012 .000 .004

Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .089a .019a .000a .005a

b. Grouping Variable: ADCODE

Honesty
Nice
Pleasant
Friendly
Of the above written variables friendliness and nice/awfulness variables we can accept
nodifference hypothesis. In rest of the variables there is a considerable difference of the
impact of humorous and non humorous advertisements.

Test Statisticsb

HONEST FRIENDLY PLEASANT NICE

Mann-Whitney U 21.000 33.500 22.000 28.000

Wilcoxon W 76.000 88.500 77.000 83.000

Z -2.433 -1.417 -2.274 -1.837

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .015 .156 .023 .066


a a a
Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)] .029 .218 .035 .105a

a. Not corrected for ties.

b. Grouping Variable: ADCODE

LIMITATIONS

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These are the following limitation to the experiment
1. Results from college student will be generalized to the whole population
2. There was no random selection of subject.
3. Because subjects are management student they are sensitive to the
advertisement.
4. All the students were aware of the advertisement before the same were shown
to them.
5. This type of study fails to read the long term effect of the advertisement.

REFERENCES
1)Sutherland,john c. the effect of humor on advertising recall (1982)

2) Haseeb Shabbir and Des Thwaites the use of humor to mask deceptive

Advertising

3) Martin Eisend, Freie Universitt Berlin, German A Meta-Analysis of Humor

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Effect in advertising
4)Mark g.weinberger ,Charles s.Gulas the impact of humor in advertising.

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