Individual Differences in Haptic Information Processing: The "Need for Touch" Scale

By Joann Peck, Terry L. Childers. 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Tablets, touchscreens, and touchpads: : How varying touch interfaces trigger psychological ownership and endowment (2014, background): “Touchscreens are smooth and glasslike, and may feel different than the products under study.”
Converting Web Site Visitors into Buyers: How Web Site Investment Increases Consumer Trusting Beliefs and Online Purchase Intentions (2006, background): “For people who are motivated to touch products, barriers to touch can decrease confidence in product evaluation, though conveying haptic information through text and graphics can help (Peck and Childers 2003b).”
An integrative review of sensory marketing: Engaging the senses to affect perception, judgment and behavior (2012, background): “Peck and Childers (2003a) have created the Need-for-Touch scale which picks up individual differences in need-for-touch.”
Fear of missing out, need for touch, anxiety and depression are related to problematic smartphone use (2016, methodology): “One addictive aspect of smartphone use is the pleasure derived from tactile sensations in holding the phone, and the autotelic touch (Peck & Childers, 2003a) required in completing tasks with one’s fingers (Lee et al., 2014).”
If I touch it I have to have it: Individual and environmental influences on impulse purchasing (2006, methodology): “Results from two experiments indicate that individuals who report a preference for autotelic touch chronically access hedonic information from memory (Peck and Childers, 2003).”
Multisensory design: Reaching out to touch the consumer (2011, background): “The latest research by Krishna and Morrin (2008) has even shown that individual differences in the need for touch picked up by the autotelic dimension of Peck and Childers’ (2003a) questionnaire can affect people’s evaluation of a drink served in a plastic cup.”
Exploring the superadditive effects of scent and pictures on verbal recall: An extension of dual coding theory (2010, background): “Future studies could explore the impact of haptic (i.e., touch; Peck & Childers, 2003) and taste-based input on memory for verbal information, with and without the presence of pictorial input.”
Does Your Company Have the Right Logo? How and Why Circular- and Angular-Logo Shapes Influence Brand Attribute Judgments (2016, background): “…evidence testifying to the importance of people’s chronic processing style in understanding how visual marketing information is processed and its consequent effects on consumer decision making (Bloch, Brunel, and Arnold 2003; Childers et al. 1985; Peck and Childers 2003; Wyer et al. 2008).”