• Asia Marketing Journal
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.77-103
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• 2012

Two experiments examined how product evaluations were affected by country-of-origin information presented with varying amounts of product-specific information. Consistent with social judgeability theory, participants were more likely to make COO-based judgments, once they felt like they had product-specific information and they were motivated to conform their judgments to socially shared standards of validity. The results of each experiment revealed that the presentation of COO information alone was not sufficient to draw judgments based on COO stereotypes. The findings were discussed within the framework of social-psychological models of impression formation.