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These questions were neither asked nor answered.","To extend previous consumer research and provide new insights on brand extensions, this research examined how prior brand attitudes and attribute information affect consumer evaluations in isolated and comparative contexts. Further, the effect of consumer motivation was incorporated since a main theme of this research was to examine how information processing occurs and affects evaluations. Then, the heuristic-systematic framework of information processing, the accessibility-diagnosticity framework of information use, and memory literature on prototypicality of brands and retrieval/encoding mechanisms were relied upon to derive the hypotheses. The research instruments were developed through seven pre-tests, the main experiment was conducted, and the results were analyzed.","The results of this research showed: (1) the effects of prior brand attitudes and attribute information on consumers' extension evaluations in an isolated context were dependent upon consumer motivation and/or attribute congruity, and (2) consumers' comparative extension evaluations were dependent upon prior attitudes of extension and prototypical brands and/or attribute congruity. The results of this research implied not only the utility of the conceptual frameworks used in examining consumer extension evaluations, but also the important directions in which the conceptual frameworks need to be developed further. Finally, in relation to this research, managerial implications, limitations, and future research directions were suggested.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:39:05Z (GMT). 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The research instruments were developed through seven pre-tests, the main experiment was conducted, and the results were analyzed.","The results of this research showed: (1) the effects of prior brand attitudes and attribute information on consumers' extension evaluations in an isolated context were dependent upon consumer motivation and/or attribute congruity, and (2) consumers' comparative extension evaluations were dependent upon prior attitudes of extension and prototypical brands and/or attribute congruity. The results of this research implied not only the utility of the conceptual frameworks used in examining consumer extension evaluations, but also the important directions in which the conceptual frameworks need to be developed further. Finally, in relation to this research, managerial implications, limitations, and future research directions were suggested.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:39:05Z (GMT). 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