By engaging IG recommendation, parents essentially express their
endorsement for, confidence in, and urge for buying a specific brand
(Bravo et al., 2007b). Because such confident endorsement fromparents
is often not accompanied by detailed information about product attributes,
IG recommendation will be more likely to influence children's
overall judgment of the superiority of a brand (i.e., perceived quality)
rather than alter children's specific associations about brand attributes.
Furthermore, the impact of IG recommendation on IG perceived quality
can be especially strong because brand endorsement from parents can
be interpreted by children as a confidence-in-quality vote froman experienced,
credible, and trustworthy source (Childers & Rao, 1992; Keillor,
Parker, & Schaefer, 1996). Formally,