Gregory S. Carpenter, Rashi Glazer, Kent Nakamoto, Meaningful Brands from Meaningless Differentiation: The Dependence on Irrelevant Attributes, Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Aug., 1994), pp. 339-350
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Carpenter et al. (1994) studied this question.