Efficacy Expectations and Adherence: Evidence of Consumer Biases and Heuristics in Pharmaceutical Marketing

Rehan Haider*
Periodicity:July - December'2024

Abstract

Pharmaceutical marketing plays an important role in forming service perceptions and attitudes concerning medication efficiency and devotion. This paper examines the influence of consumer biases and heuristics on efficiency beliefs and medication devotion in the context of pharmaceutical marketing game plans. Drawing on subjective theories of accountability, concerned with the manner of behaving economics, and marketing research, this study synthesizes existent evidence to illuminate by what method intelligent biases and heuristics impact service attitudes and demeanor towards drug products. The study labels several key biases and heuristics prevailing in pharmaceutical marketing, including holding, chance heuristics, ratification bias, and friendly proof. These biases frequently lead users to exaggerate medication productivity through limited news, informal evidence, or persuasive shopping ideas. Consequently, buyers may exhibit taller beliefs of medication influence than authorized, potentially superior to non-devotion or dissatisfaction accompanying situational effects. Moreover, pharmaceutical marketing tactics, such as celebrity endorsements, emotional appeals, and framing effects, exploit these biases to influence consumer perceptions and drive sales. However, while these strategies may initially boost medication uptake, they can also contribute to unrealistic efficacy expectations and suboptimal adherence in the long term. Understanding the interaction between consumer biases, heuristics, and pharmaceutical marketing is critical for developing interventions to advance informed accountability and enhance medication devotion. By combining concern with manner of behaving insights into marketing campaigns and patient instruction initiatives, shareholders can diminish the impact of biases, enhance cure education, and promote more rational cure-connected decision-making between customers.

Keywords

Efficacy Expectations, Medication Adherence, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Consumer Biases, and Heuristics

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