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The multisensory design of pharmaceuticals and their packaging

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People’s expectations concerning the functional properties and efficacy of pharmaceuticals are influenced by a wide variety of product-extrinsic factors, such as the colour (of both product and pack), form (e.g., tablet vs. capsule), and shape (e.g., round, oval, or diamond-shaped) of medicines, and the multisensory design of the product packaging. The sound symbolic properties of a medicine’s brand name, as well as its processing fluency, have also been shown to exert a significant influence...

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Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104200

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-2111-072X
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Food Quality and Preference Journal website
Volume:
91
Article number:
104200
Publication date:
2021-02-02
Acceptance date:
2021-01-29
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EISSN:
1873-6343
ISSN:
0950-3293
Language:
English
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Review
Pubs id:
1161368
Local pid:
pubs:1161368
Deposit date:
2021-04-28

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