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. 2022 Jun 6;32(3):1221–1238. doi: 10.1007/s12525-022-00549-9

Table 7.

Density of deceptive characteristics

Item and critical value Beer crate attachment Fan pack Megaphone
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9
Comprehensibility Title length (<25 Characters) (Banerjee & Chua, 2017) 27 21 12 26 37 20 26 18 103
Text length (<164 Words) (Yoo & Gretzel, 2009) 33 62 48 35 29 57 41 37 59
Syntax (<7 words per sentence) (Büschken & Allenby, 2016) 11 6.20 6.86 5.83 7.25 9.50 6.00 6.50 9.43
Specificity Temporal words (<1) (Banerjee & Chua, 2017) 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
Brand reference (≥1) (Yoo & Gretzel, 2009) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Exaggeration Emotion (>5% of words) (Yoo & Gretzel, 2009) 6% 4.8% 2% 8.5% 10.3% 0% 4.8% 5.4% 0%
Exclamation marks (≥1 per review) (Li & Zhan, 2011) 0 3 2 3 2 3 0 0 1
Negligence Self-referencing (>4% of words) (Yoo & Gretzel, 2009) 3% 4.8% 2.8% 3.4% 1.8% 9.1% 4.8% 2.7% 3.3%
Exclusion words (>0 per Review) (Banerjee & Chua, 2017) 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1