they are less likely to focus on dissimilarities between brands and may view the quality of high- and low-priced brands as insignificantly different, leading to a lesser tendency to make price-quality judgments.
Research also suggests that consumers higher (vs. lower) in need for structure strive to order the world into a less complex and more manageable form. Their overarching objective is the creation and use of simplified cognitive structures—such as schemas, heuristics, prototypes, and scripts—to conserve cognitive resources (Moskowitz 1993; Neuberg and Newsom 1993; Thompson et al. 2001). This may make them more likely to use heuristics such as the price-quality schema. Indeed, a primary reason consumers use product price to infer quality is to conserve cognitive resources (Rao 2005) or as a shortcut due to limited knowledge about the product category (Rao and Monroe 1988).