The first aim of this latter study was to test whether the configural arrangement of the wine and its logo played any role in the downward orientation preference of the logo in Experiment 1.
To this end, we modified how the logo was rotated so that the upward and downward pointing logos were equidistant from the top of the wine bottle. Note also that we removed some horizontal lines that were present within the logo here as they acted to make the logo seem slightly asymmetrical, which could potentially have influenced the results.
The second objective of Experiment 2 was to test whether people would be willing to pay more for the packaging with the preferred orientations as identified in Experiment 1 for the Campanelle and Pipette pasta, as compared to when the pasta was presented as originally oriented on their respective packages.
In a similar vein, here we also tested whether the original Gemelli and Izadi wine logo orientations on their packaging would be thought of as worth more than the same items oriented at another, less-preferred, orientation.