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As a rapidly developing multidisciplinary research field, neuromarketing
offers great advantage to researchers in understanding the irrational
aspects of consumer behavior. Neuromarketing methods are used to
complement the classical marketing research methods for the analysis of
subconscious dimensions of consumers’ cognitive load which occurs in
the procurement process.
In communication age that we’re in now, there are many differences in
online purchasing behavior of consumer groups whom defined as 'digital
immigrants' and 'digital natives'. Literature shows that digital natives
who met internet as soon as their birth are really familiar to online
shopping technologies, but digital immigrants are still abstemious to
online transactions.
In this research, digital natives who are stay continuously online and
digital immigrants who are still in the process of adaptation to online
world were examined through 'stress levels'. In our study, both groups
were manipulated by using "web site load speed", which is the one of the
most important stress factors in online shopping and through this
stimulus the changes in their purchasing behavior were investigated.
Stress levels were analyzed via Galvanic Skin Conductance Response, as
one of the biometric measurement techniques, and the difference between
the two groups was determined by statistical methods. We assume that;
the difference between two groups’ stress levels, should be considered as
a clue to understand the effects of shopping sites’ technical
infrastructures on consumer decision making processes and online
shopping behaviour.