i need to finish my part of the project
you need to use the document that I gave you to finish my part.
which are
Case Studies (Zhenghao)
- Show examples of misleading advertising (about 2-3)
Positive Examples(Zhenghao)
- Good marketing of environmental claims
FINAL CONSUMER BEHAVIOR PAPER OUTLINE
Intro
- How misleading advertising has shown up
- Effective? Not effective?
- What is misleading advertising?
- More than just blatant lying
- Stretching the truth
- Making bigger claims from smaller facts
- Focus on the consumer behavior aspect
- What causes consumers to fall for misleading advertising (introduce these ideas which will be further explained later on in the paper)
- Lack of knowledge
- Trust in companies (through branding, brand loyalty)
- Social influences (does this company appear to align with their goals? May be more ready to support them, or the opposite effect)
- What causes consumers to fall for misleading advertising (introduce these ideas which will be further explained later on in the paper)
Case Studies (Zhenghao)
- Show examples of misleading advertising (about 2-3)
Consumer Behavior
- What causes consumers to be influenced by misleading advertising?
- Schemas
- Brand loyalty
- Lack of knowledge/low effort processing (low effort processing → people more likely to believe in misleading information)
Environmental claims by businesses
- Current culture around environment and sustainability
- Respectable
- Incentive to support businesses devoted to environmental sustainability
- How it can help them market their brand
- Information processing by consumers
- Branding/brand loyalty etc.
Greenwashing (Sophia)
- What is greenwashing?
- How companies are misleading customers by making false/exaggerated environmental claims related to their company
- Ethics
- How are companies allowed to make these false claims? What protects them?
- How false claims can cause more trouble than positive claims can do good
- Loss of credibility
- Legal trouble
Positive Examples(Zhenghao)
- Good marketing of environmental claims
Conclusion
- Summarize ideas
- Overall takeaway (relating to misleading advertising in general and specifically environmental-related marketing)

