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Launching for Success: The Effects of Psychological Distance and Mental Simulation on Funding Decisions and Crowdfunding Performance

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  • Rose, Stefan
  • Wentzel, Daniel
  • Hopp, Christian
  • Kaminski, Jermain

    (Maastricht University)

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This research examines how potential backers form mental representations of products in reward- based crowdfunding campaigns, and how these representations affect funding decisions and campaign performance. To test our framework, we conducted four experiments and also drew on a sample of 961 Kickstarter campaigns. Our results show that two campaign characteristics – the product’s development stage and the indicated time to product delivery – determine the psychological distance that supporters experience in response to a campaign, and that psychological distance, in turn, inhibits individual campaign contributions and cumulative campaign success. Furthermore, we find that encouraging supporters to imagine the benefits of product usage is an effective means to increase support for campaigns that elicit high psychological distance.

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  • Rose, Stefan & Wentzel, Daniel & Hopp, Christian & Kaminski, Jermain, 2020. "Launching for Success: The Effects of Psychological Distance and Mental Simulation on Funding Decisions and Crowdfunding Performance," SocArXiv fqbwk_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:fqbwk_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/fqbwk_v1
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