Brand Personality: Human Features Of Human

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3-1 Brand personality:
Brand personality is the human features that people attribute to the brands. These features include positive features such as smart, punctual, loyal, funny, exciting, etc. and negative feature such as lack of taste, impolite, trickster, etc. (HamidiZadeh et al, 2011). Not all the brands have personality, or not all of them have powerful and differentiated personality. Personality is an important dimension of brand, and similar to human personality that differentiates and stabilizes human, brand personality also differentiates and stabilizes the brand. Human beings have characteristics, and they are known by these characteristics in the society. These characteristics differentiate human beings from each other. This is …show more content…

Considering brands as humans, identities and characteristics can also be considered for them. Brand personality has an attractive concept in the marketing world. Aaker considers brand personality as the core and the closest variable in customers’ decision making in the time of shopping (Aziz et al, 2012). Aaker (1997) is the most famous researcher in the field of brands personality. He defined brand personality as a set of human features related to the brand. Brand personality shows the image or description of the customers from a specific brand as a result of data collection or experience gained from the brand. Obtaining a credential brand is one of the criteria of the customers in the selection of products since brand creates a specific identity for the products. Aaker stressed that brand recognition is the foundation of creation of a powerful brand, and human features can be attributed to the brand based on the concept of brand personality. Some examples of these features include how a brand continues to live, what a brand does during its life, etc. Aaker considered 5 dimensions for brand personality including sincerity (truthfulness), excitement, competence, …show more content…

The goal was to assess the effect of brand personality dimensions on purchasing intention. Brand personality dimensions were assessed by comparing the difference among users and non-users of 12 brands. 400 students of bachelor degree participated in this study. Two questionnaires were used in this study (6 brands about intellectual products and 6 brands about emotional products). 313 participants filled the questionnaire about 6 brands of intellectual products, and 320 participants filled the questionnaire about 6 brands of emotional products. Multiple regression analysis showed that brand personality dimensions are important predictors of purchase

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