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If prior research and thinking are any indication, theorizing about advertising effectiveness is analogous to the eternal search for inner peace: everybody hopes for it, some attempt to search for it, but no one has yet discovered it. This paper is one more attempt in search for measurement of advertising effectiveness.
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Jagdish N. Sheth (1974) studied this question.
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