“…The Advertising D Information school also holds that more informed consumers help to increase competition, improve product quality, and exert downward pressure on price in many industries (McAuliffe 1987). While it has been previously documented here that recent research evidence favours the Information school over the Market Power school (e.g., Capella et al 2009;Cheong, Kim, and Kim 2013;DeLoitte 2013;Graham and Frankenberger 2011;Kopf, Torres and Enomoto 2011;Wilcox, Kim, and Schultz 2012), the fact remains that many individuals hold some negative images of advertising. As a result, it makes a great deal of sense for advertising researchers to focus on areas where 'winÀwin' situations are possible.…”