Scaled measures were developed through a two-stage data-collection procedure to assess the extent to which 158 undergraduate respondents engaged in self-referencing in response to advertising. Self-referent cognitive responses were used as a basis for devising scales that were both generalizable and directed at the executional elements of some advertisements.
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