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Ulu, Sevincgul. The effect of fertility on women's word-of-mouth behavior. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-x5gn-xw14

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TitleThe effect of fertility on women's word-of-mouth behavior
NameUlu, Sevincgul (author); Durante, Kristina (chair); Uslay, Can (internal member); Yeniyurt, Sengun (internal member); Yalcinkaya, Goksel (outside member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2018
Other Date2018-10 (degree)
SubjectManagement, Word-of-mouth advertising, Fertility, Human
Extent1 online resource (95 pages : illustrations)
DescriptionThe power of word-of-mouth (WOM) lies in its ability to influence consumer behavior and purchase intention, highlighting drivers of WOM behaviors that are critical to marketers. This dissertation examines a biological factor that influences women’s desire to engage in WOM—monthly ovulatory cycles. Estrogen is a hormone that increases near ovulation, regulates women’s fertility, and shifts women’s social motives and behaviors. This study tests whether fertility influences women’s desire to engage in WOM with others. Six studies suggest that women demonstrate greater desire to share information at high fertility—near ovulation. However, the fertility-regulated increase in the desire to share information was specific to sharing only with other women, an effect that emerged in both hypothetical and real social network behaviors. Additional findings corroborate the prediction that product type moderates the relationship and that sharing information during high fertility functions partially to build alliances with other women and mitigate mate competition. These findings have important implications for understanding how hormones that regulate fertility influence women’s desire to share information, including mating motives that underlie the effect.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Sevincgul Ulu
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-x5gn-xw14
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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