同化對比作用在實體環境中廣泛被運用，業者運用消費者心理，讓其產品與腦海中特定商品比較時能夠勝出，而做足了努力。哪些情況下會產生同化效果，哪些情況下會產生對比效果，一直是學者不斷在探索的議題，並應用在行銷廣告領域。
而這股戰火隨著科技的發展而蔓延到網際網路，網路行銷已經是種普遍的概念，本研究欲將同化對比效果在網際網路環境做驗證，因此選定了相似性(similarity)與區辨性(Distinctiveness)在網路上做實驗，探討同樣的變數在網路環境中是否也能引起同樣的同化對比效果。

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