These results lead to an inference that subjects used different information processing strategies depending on their motivation to process information and the time pressure that they experienced. The results also lead to an inference that price plays a dual role in consumers' product evaluations, serving both as an indicator of quality and as an indicator of sacrifice. When conditions permit systematic information processing, the price-sacrifice relationship likely will dominate consumers' judgments. But when conditions lead to heuristic information processing, the price-quality relationship will dominate consumers' judgments.