Impact of Factors of Online Deceptive Reviews on Customer Purchase Decision Based on Machine Learning.

Journal: Journal of healthcare engineering
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Abstract

Online deceptive reviews widely exist in the online shopping environment. Numerous studies have investigated the impact of online product reviews on customer behaviour and sales. However, the existing literature is mainly based on real product reviews; only a few studies have investigated deceptive reviews. Based on the results of deceptive reviews, this article explores the factors that affect customer purchase decision in online review systems, which is flooded by deceptive reviews. Therefore, a deceptive review influence model is proposed based on three influential factors of online review system, sentiment characteristics, review length, and online seller characteristics. Based on them, text mining is used to quantify the indicators of the three influential factors. Through principal component analysis and linear regression, the experimental results of electronic appliances on Tmall show that the three influential factors are positively related to customers' purchase intention and decision making.

Authors

  • Minjuan Zhong
    School of Information Technology, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha 410205, China.
  • Xilong Qu
    School of Information Technology, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha 410205, China.
  • Yuhua Chen
  • Shumei Liao
    School of Information Management, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China.
  • Quan Xiao
    School of Information Management, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China.