PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Peilin Phua
AU  - Bill Page
AU  - Giang Trinh
AU  - Nicole Hartnett
AU  - Rachel Kennedy
TI  - Does Childhood Exposure to a Brand Improve Brand Name Recognition?
AID  - 10.2501/JAR-2023-025
DP  - 2023 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Advertising Research
PG  - 370--383
VI  - 63
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/63/4/370.short
4100  - http://www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/63/4/370.full
SO  - J Advert Res2023 Dec 01; 63
AB  - The age-of-acquisition effect suggests that things learned early in life, including brand names, are recognized faster and more accurately. This study confirms this effect but cautions that the managerial impact of age of acquisition is small. Brand exposure frequency and usage recency have a far greater effect on recognition than age of acquisition. The strongest age-of-acquisition effect is observed among individuals who are unfamiliar with the brand, suggesting that repetition, such as in advertising, is necessary. Respondents were slower to identify brands released before they turned 15, indicating that memory-based processes occur for early-learned brands, whereas late-learned brands relied more on processes that were not memory based, such as guessing.