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Digital Nudge in an Online Review Environment: How Uploading Pictures First Affects the Quality of Reviews

온라인 리뷰 환경에서의 디지털 넛지: 사진을 먼저 업로드 하는 행동이 리뷰의 품질에 미치는 영향

  • 이재민 ;
  • 김태영 (연세대학교 경영학과 정보시스템 전공) ;
  • 이호근 (연세대학교 경영학과 정보시스템 전공)
  • Received : 2022.07.01
  • Accepted : 2023.11.17
  • Published : 2023.02.28
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Abstract

Consumers tend to trust information provided by other consumers more than information provided by sellers. Therefore, while inducing consumers to write high-quality reviews is a very important task for companies, it is not easy to produce such high-quality reviews. Based on previous research on review writing and memory recall, we decided to develop a way to use digital nudge to help consumers naturally write high-quality reviews. Specifically, we designed an experiment to verify the effect of uploading a photo during the online review process on the quality of review of the review writer. We then recruited subjects and then divided them into groups that upload photos first and groups that do not. A task was assigned to each subject to write positive and negative reviews. As a result, it was confirmed that the behavior of uploading a photo first increases the review length. In addition, it was confirmed that when online users who upload photos first have extremely negative satisfaction with the product, the extent of two-sidedness of the review content increases.

소비자들은 판매자가 제공하는 정보 보다는 다른 소비자가 제공하는 정보를 더욱 신뢰하는 경향이 있다. 그렇기 때문에 소비자로 하여금 높은 품질의 리뷰를 작성하도록 유도하는 것은 기업에게 있어서 매우 중요한 과제지만, 이처럼 양질의 리뷰를 생산하게 만드는 것은 쉽지 않다. 그래서 우리는 리뷰 작성 및 기억 회상 관련 연구를 토대로 소비자들이 자연스럽게 높은 품질의 리뷰를 작성하도록 만드는 디지털 넛지(digital nudge) 방법을 개발하기로 결정했다. 구체적으로, 우리는 온라인 리뷰 작성 과정에서 리뷰 작성자의 사진을 먼저 업로드 하는 행동이 리뷰의 품질에 미치는 영향을 검증하는 실험을 설계하였다. 이를 위해 우리는 실험 대상자를 모집 후, 리뷰 작성 전에 사진을 먼저 업로드 하는 그룹과 그렇지 않는 그룹으로 나누었다. 그리고 각 실험 대상자들에게 긍정 리뷰와 부정 리뷰를 작성하게 하는 과제를 할당하였다. 그 결과, 사진을 먼저 업로드 하는 행동이 리뷰 내용의 길이를 늘린다는 점을 확인하였다. 또한 사진을 먼저 업로드 하는 온라인 유저들이 그 상품에 대한 만족도가 극단적으로 부정적일 때, 그 유저가 작성하는 리뷰 내용의 양면성의 정도가 증가한다는 것을 확인하였다.

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이 논문은 2022년도 '4단계 두뇌한국21 사업(4단계 BK21 사업)'과 2022년도 연세대학교 연구비(RMS 2022-22-0064)의 지원을 받아 수행된 것임.

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