Does the dispersion of online review ratings affect review helpfulness?
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lee, Soyeon | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, Saerom | - |
dc.contributor.author | Baek, Hyunmi | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-30T02:46:58Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-30T02:46:58Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2021-06-19 | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0747-5632 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/49444 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The impact of online consumer reviews on online purchase decisions has increased with the growth of e-commerce. This paper tries to explain how rating dispersion impacts the process of review consumption based on the heuristic systematic model. For this research, 10,198 online consumer reviews for 516 DVD products were collected from Amazon.com using a web data crawler. Our results show that when trusting average ratings (i.e., when rating dispersion is low), the incentive to read individual reviews decreases because of the principle of least effort. In this case, consumers consider average ratings to be representative of collective intelligence, so rating inconsistency negatively impacts review helpfulness. On the other hand, when average ratings are not trusted (i. e., when rating dispersion is high), the incentive to read individual reviews increases because of the principle of sufficiency. When it happens, extreme ratings affects review helpfulness more because extreme opinions are not ambiguous. Our findings provide new perspectives to address the inconsistent findings of the previous studies on rating and review helpfulness, and the practical implications for e-commerce platforms. | - |
dc.language | English | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | - |
dc.subject | WORD-OF-MOUTH | - |
dc.subject | CONSUMER REVIEWS | - |
dc.subject | NEGATIVITY BIAS | - |
dc.subject | DETERMINANTS | - |
dc.subject | CREDIBILITY | - |
dc.subject | EMOTIONS | - |
dc.subject | CUES | - |
dc.title | Does the dispersion of online review ratings affect review helpfulness? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.contributor.affiliatedAuthor | Baek, Hyunmi | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106670 | - |
dc.identifier.scopusid | 2-s2.0-85099250571 | - |
dc.identifier.wosid | 000609166900006 | - |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR, v.117 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR | - |
dc.citation.title | COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR | - |
dc.citation.volume | 117 | - |
dc.type.rims | ART | - |
dc.type.docType | Review | - |
dc.description.journalClass | 1 | - |
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass | ssci | - |
dc.description.journalRegisteredClass | scopus | - |
dc.relation.journalResearchArea | Psychology | - |
dc.relation.journalWebOfScienceCategory | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | - |
dc.relation.journalWebOfScienceCategory | Psychology, Experimental | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | WORD-OF-MOUTH | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | CONSUMER REVIEWS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | NEGATIVITY BIAS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | DETERMINANTS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | CREDIBILITY | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | EMOTIONS | - |
dc.subject.keywordPlus | CUES | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | Online consumer review | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | Review helpfulness | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | Rating dispersion | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | Extreme rating | - |
dc.subject.keywordAuthor | Rating inconsistency | - |
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