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The Consumer Neuroscience of Packaging

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Given the explosion of interest in the fields of multisensory packaging design and consumer neuroscience/neuromarketing in recent years, it is natural to wonder what relevance the latter approaches have as far as the optimization of the former is concerned. In this review, we chart the use of neuroimaging techniques such as electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging by those wishing to understand the neural response of consumers to various examples of multisensory product packaging. The hope is that such insights might one day help businesses to better predict the performance of product packaging, given specific strategic objectives. To date, much of the research has focused simply on determining the network of brain areas that are involved in processing visual images of product packaging. Intriguingly, though, the latest findings now suggest that composite brain measures seen in response to product communication may, under certain conditions at least, be used to predict a product’s sales success in the marketplace. We highlight the key challenges associated with using neuroimaging techniques for packaging research and stress the limitations (such as the challenges associated with assessing the influence of tactile and olfactory attributes of the packaging, as well as collecting repeated measures when consumers interact with the product in its packaging). We end by reviewing the latest insights that have emerged from the use of neuroscience-inspired (consumer neuroscience) techniques (including so-called implicit tests, such as the Implicit Association Test, and eye-tracking), that have managed to overcome some of the limitations associated with neuroimaging.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    As captured in Google Scholar searches, on February 28, 2018, of article titles, the literature on the topic is not extensive: Packaging + Neuroscience = 2 articles; Packaging + Neuromarketing = 3 articles; Brand + Neuromarketing = 14 articles; Brand + Neuroscience = 9 articles; Packaging + Psychology = 65 articles.

  2. 2.

    Note, however, that a recent review by Lee, Chamberlain, and Brandes (2018) suggests that the available literature in neuromarketing and consumer neuroscience (both terms which they use interchangeably) appears to be somewhat fragmented. Furthermore, clear guidelines as to what constitutes good practice in the field seem to be lacking.

  3. 3.

    It should, however, always be remembered that it is more the brand than specifically the packaging that is doing the work in this case. That said, signature packaging is a valuable brand asset for many companies.

  4. 4.

    Event-related potentials (ERPs) are electrical potentials generated by the brain related to specific internal or external events. The electroencephalography (EEG) records the electrical activity of the brain. EEG data provide indications on different brain rhythms depending on the activation state of the neurons. EEG has very high temporal resolution (milliseconds) but a low spatial resolution. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides indirect measures of brain activity, based on the blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) contrast. The method is based on the magnetic properties of oxygenated/deoxygenated blood. fMRI can produce high spatial resolutions (1–3 mm) but has a poor temporal resolution (seconds). Other neuroimaging techniques such as, for example, positron emission tomography (PET), that rely on the injection of a radioactive tracer into the participant’s bloodstream are understandably less popular in commercial neuromarketing research than they have been in medical research.

  5. 5.

    However, the fact that his research appears in an edited book, rather than a high-impact peer-reviewed journal article, probably says something about the perceived usefulness of his approach at the time in was published.

  6. 6.

    Beta wave is a neural oscillation in the brain with a frequency range of 13–30 Hz. Beta wave is mostly related to alertness and concentration.

  7. 7.

    In total, 30 exemplars of product packaging (e.g., pizza boxes) were shown 4 times in a random order for 10 seconds each. The participants had to make a speeded forced choice response to each image of product packaging.

  8. 8.

    Note that in a highly cited early consumer neuroscience study, Knutson, Rick, Wimmer, Prelec, and Loewenstein (2007) were able to demonstrate that the purchase decision (for a product shown on the screen while participants lay in the brain scanner) was associated with activity in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc). Meanwhile, high prices resulted in increased activation in the insula and reduced activity in medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC).

  9. 9.

    Meanwhile, Hubert, Hubert, Sommer, and Kenning (2009) conducted a study (N = 11) in order to assess the attractiveness of different packages with and without framing information, in this particular case, retail brands. Their analyses revealed variations across participants in terms of the latter’s susceptibility to retail (framing) brand information, as reflected in the patterns of cortical activation (in particular in the vmPFC, which was higher for more susceptible participants).

  10. 10.

    Note that a surprisingly large number of consumers are poisoned in this way every year (i.e., by accidentally ingesting such home and personal care [HPC] products that are packaged to remind people of food products).

  11. 11.

    The P300 is an evoked potential measure. P means that the wave has a positive amplitude, and 300 means that it appears 300 ms after the onset of the relevant stimulation.

  12. 12.

    That said, it should be remembered that the participants only ranked their liking of the visual communications once at the end of the fMRI study, whereas the BOLD response to each visual communication was assessed six times.

  13. 13.

    According to an analysis conducted by Fisher, Chin, and Klitzman (2010), galvanic skin response (GSR) is a particularly popular offering amongst neuromarketing companies.

  14. 14.

    It is unclear quite what the “experiments” in the second sentence is really supposed to refer to here, given that both behavioural scientists and cognitive neuroscientists would, we imagine, insist that they conducted experiments. One could, we think, also legitimately claim that certain neuroimaging techniques, specifically ERPs, should actually be considered as traditional given that marketing and advertising researchers have been using them for almost half a century (e.g., Eckstrand & Gilliland, 1948; Krugman, 1971; Weinstein, 1981; Weinstein, Drozdenko, & Weinstein, 1984).

  15. 15.

    And the marketers are by no means exceptional in this regard. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer had the following to say on the topic: “I’ve worked with large companies and asked decision makers how often they base an important professional decision on that gut feeling. In the companies I’ve worked with, which are large international companies, about 50% of all decisions are at the end a gut decision” (quoted in Fox, 2014).

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Spence, C., Velasco, C., Petit, O. (2019). The Consumer Neuroscience of Packaging. In: Velasco, C., Spence, C. (eds) Multisensory Packaging. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94977-2_12

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