NAME LETTER BRANDING
Miguel Brendl professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management is intrigued by the fact that “your liking for the letters of your name, which is really driven by your liking for yourself, might spill over to objects and influence your choices. Put simply, if a brand name shares our initials, we tend to like it more. “ His research elucidates how and under what conditions this curious phenomenon, which Brendl calls “name-letter branding,” can be expected to appear, influencing consumers’ consumption choices. In particular, name-letter branding influences choices through two stages based on processes known as implicit egotism...




