Pleasantness & Preference
Consistent with the general design of a blind taste test (McClure et al., 2004), participants were asked to rate which brand
they preferred based on taste and disclosure of the brand alone. The stimulus generalization and product familiarity that
was found in Burshteyn and Buff (2008) was also found in our study with over threequarters of the participants choosing the manufacturer label product when the brands were revealed. The average ratings provided on the survey for each brand during the taste test portion coincided with the neutral findings on the EEG measure. This consistent finding indicates that the familiar taste of the beverages collected in the survey of pleasantness and EEG measure drove the switching behavior where half of the participants who originally chose the manufacturer brand switched to the private label brand once price was introduced