Purpose: While millions of dollars is spent yearly on health endorsements, and its associated research, findings in studies where product category wasn't considered might be inaccurate. Design/methodology/approach: An experimental research design was used to investigate the effect of health...

As emotional consumer-brand relationships have a high impact on consumer behavior, brand managers tend to create passionate brands, e.g. by using emotional advertising messages. Although the role of emotions is frequently discussed in marketing literature, the causalities of brand passion are...