We chose a well-known manufacturer brand and a less familiar private-label brand of soft drink. We used one private-label brand and one paired manufacturer label brand similar to the procedures in Burshteyn and Buff (2008). Participants were asked to rate their brand loyalty for the manufacturer label brand and then this loyalty was tested through a blind
taste test. The blind taste test was followed by the individual’s recognition of each beverage and selection of which beverage he or she liked more based on the perceived pleasantness of flavor. This procedure was similar to the taste test in Plassman et al. (2008) with the caveat that the participants were given the price after drinking each beverage and rating its pleasantness. Brand loyalty, taste preference, brand recognition, and price perception were all measured through the explicit means of a survey tool.
Taste preference was also measured
implicitly using EEG. Both beverages
contained similar caffeine content