Trust and brand effect
By definition, trust is viewed to be a cognitive-related construct involving a process that is well thought out and carefully considered (Chiou and Droge, 2006; Singh and Sirdeshmukh, 2000), rather than an emotional one. Customer expectation, in a general sense, involves some degree of uncertainty of outcome, which gives rise to negative emotion and disappointment when expectations are not met (Lazarus, 2006). CSR expectation is not hypothesized to have a direct relationship with the cognitive concept of trust. The CSR expectation is rather related to affective variables such as brand effect which is “more spontaneous, more immediate, and less deliberately reasoned in nature” (Chaudhuri and Holbrook, 2001).