Consumers are more likely to buy a product that is advertised as “90% Fat Free!” than a product that is advertised as “10% Pure Fat!” Yet both advertisements convey precisely the same information. Which of the following concepts best explains why the first advertisement is more effective than the second?
a. the representativeness heuristic
b. sampling error
c. the framing effect
d. the base-rate fallacy
Ans: C
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