The Social Utility of Feature Creep
By D. Thompson, Michael I. Norton. 2011
100 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5c6c67d7801c0772e0b6ee4da107a0e1bf099f6b
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Marketing
- Yaacov Trope
- Dan Ariely
- Daniel Mochon
- Nathan Novemsky
- Cheryl J. Wakslak
- E. Baskin
- Tripat Gill
- Ying Jiang
In Sociology and Political Science
- Cheryl J. Wakslak
- Nathan Novemsky
- E. Baskin
- Yaacov Trope
- Tripat Gill
- Dan Ariely
- Michael I. Norton
- Zhenfeng Ma
Citations in the corpus
- All That Glitters Is Not Gold: How Others’ Status Influences the Effect of Power Distance Belief on Status Consumption (2016, unknown): “This argument is further supported by more recent empirical research demonstrating that consumption of status goods differs in public versus private situations (Berger and Ward 2010; Thompson and Norton 2011; Wang and Griskevicius 2014).”
- Bolstering and restoring feelings of competence via the IKEA effect (2012, background): “Indeed, consumers actively use products to signal their identities to others (Belk, 1988; Berger & Heath, 2007; Wernerfelt, 1990) and use particular products, such as feature-rich electronic products, to signal their competence (Thompson & Norton, 2011).”
- Core versus Peripheral Innovations: The Effect of Innovation Locus on Consumer Adoption of New Products (2015, background): “…of a given set of new features is not constant but can vary depending on contextual factors, such as the time of evaluation (i.e., before vs. after use; Meyer, Zhao, and Han 2008; Thompson, Hamilton, and Rust 2005) and the social context (e.g., public vs. private setting; Thompson and Norton 2011).”
- I’m Proud of It: Consumer Technology Appropriation and Psychological Ownership (2015, unknown): “Such reasoning helps explain findings that social visibility enhances the purchase of feature-rich products but suppresses their actual use (Thompson and Norton, 2011).”
- Why Feasibility Matters More to Gift Receivers than to Givers: A Construal-Level Approach to Gift Giving (2014, methodology): “Gifts were selected based on factors identified as influencing desirability and feasibility in previous research (Liberman and Trope 1998; Thompson, Hamilton, and Rust 2005; Thompson and Norton 2011).”