Therefore, attitudes and preferences for hedonic consumption are more emotionally driven, whereas those for utilitarian goods and services are more cognitively guided (Havlena and Holbrook 1986; Holbrook and Hirschman 1982; Mano and Oliver 1993; Shiv and Fedorikhin 1999). Since the use of affective appraisals has been shown to be the underlying basis of the zero price effect (Shampanier et al. 2007), it follows that this effect will influence preferences more for hedonic (vs. utilitarian) consumption items and situations. This theorizing enables us to develop a straightforward argument for a cross-category difference in the influence of “free price” in boosting product preference. We expect this effect to be greater in the case of hedonic (vs. utilitarian) products. More specifically, we propose the following hypotheses: