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Consumer Behavior

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ISBN-10: 0618643729

ISBN-13: 9780618643721

Edition: 4th 2007

Authors: Wayne D. Hoyer, Deborah J. Macinnis

List price: $262.95
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Active field researchers and award-winning teachers Hoyer and MacInnis provide students with an accessible and topical introduction to consumer behavior. A broad conceptual model helps students see how all chapter topics tie together, and real-world examples reinforce each concept and theoretical principle under review. The text also focuses on the implications of consumer behavior research for marketers. Updated to reflect the most recent research and examples, the Fourth Edition features streamlined content and organizationfrom 21 to 20 chaptersas well as a new interior design and new photos and advertisements. In addition, several pedagogical features make the material accessible and…    
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Book details

List price: $262.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 1/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 720
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English

David Kincaid is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Also, he is the Interim Director of the Center for Numerical Analysis (CNA) within the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).Wayne D. Hoyer holds the James L. Bayless/William S. Farish Fund Chair for Free Enterprise and is Chairman of the Department of Marketing. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. from Purdue University. His major area of study is consumer psychology and his research interests include consumer information processing and decision making, customer relationship management and new product development, and advertising information processing…    

Note: Each chapter includes an Introduction, a Summary, and Exercises
An Introduction to Consumer Behavior
Understanding Consumer Behavior
Defining Consumer Behavior
What Affects Consumer Behavior?
Who Benefits from the Study of Consumer Behavior?
Developing and Using Information About Consumer Behavior
Consumer Behavior
Research Methods Types of Consumer Researchers
Primary Versus Secondary Data Marketing Implications of Consumer Behavior
Ethical Issues in Consumer Research
The Psychological Core
Motivation, Ability, and Opportunity Consumer
Motivation and Its Effects
What Affects Motivation?
Consumer Ability: Resources to Act Consumer Opportunity
Exposure, Attention, and Perception
Exposure
Attention
Perception
Knowledge and Understanding Knowledge
Knowledge Content
Knowledge Structure
Using Knowledge to Understand
Attitudes Based on High Consumer Effort
What Are Attitudes?
Forming and Changing Attitudes
The Cognitive Foundations of Attitudes
How Cognitively Based Attitudes Are Influenced
The Affective (Emotional) Foundations of Attitudes
How Affectively Based Attitudes
Are Influenced Attitude Toward the Ad
When Do Attitudes Predict Behavior?
Attitudes Based on Low Consumer Effort
High-Effort Versus
Low-Effort Routes to Persuasion Cognitive
Bases of Attitudes
When Consumer Effort Is Low
How Cognitive Attitudes
Are Influenced Affective Bases of Attitudes
When Consumer Effort Is Low
How Affective Attitudes Are Influenced
Memory and Retrieval What Is Memory?
What Are the Types of Memory?
How Memory Is Enhanced
Organization of Long-Term Memory
What Is Retrieval?
What Are the Types of Retrieval?
How Retrieval Is Enhanced
The Process of Making Decisions
Problem Recognition and Information Search
Problem Recognition
Internal Search: Searching for Information from Memor
External Search: Searching for Information from the Environment
Judgment and Decision Making Based on High Consumer
Effort High-Effort Judgment Processes
High-Effort Decision-Making Processes
High-Effort Thought-Based Decisions
High-Effort Feeling-Based Decisions
Decision Making When Alternatives Cannot Be Compared
Does Context Affect
How Decisions Are Made?
Judgment and Decision Making Based on Low Consumer
Effort Low-Effort Judgment Processes
Low-Effort Decision-Making Processes
Learning Choice Tactics
Low-Effort Thought-Based Decision Making
Low-Effort Feeling-Based Decision Making
Post-Decision Processes
Post-Decision Dissonance
Learning from Consumer Experience
How Do Consumers
Make Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction Judgments?
Responses to Dissatisfaction Is Customer
Satisfaction Enough? Disposition
The Consumer's Culture
Regional, Ethnic, and Religious
Influences on Consumer Behavior
Regional Influences
Ethnic Influences
Religious Influences
Social Class Influences on Consumer Behavior
Social Class
How Social Class Changes over Time
How Does Social Class
Affect Consumption?
The Consumption Patterns of Specific Social Classes
Age, Gender, and Household Influences on Consumer Behavior
How Age Affects Consumer Behavior
How Gender Affects Consumer Behavior
How the Household Influences Consumer Behavior
Roles that Household Members Play
Social Influence
General Sources of Influence
Special Sources of Influence
Reference Groups
Are Sources of Influence
Sources Can Exert Normative Influence
Sources Can Exert Informational Influence
How Can "Information" Be Described?
Psychographics: Values, Personality, and Lifestyles Values
Personality Lifestyles
Psychographics: Combining Values, Personality, and Lifestyles
Consumer Behavior Outcomes
Symbolic Consumer Behavior
Sources and Functions of Symbolic Meaning
Special Possessions Sacred Meaning
The Transfer of Symbolic Meaning
Through Gift Giving
Adoption of, Resistance to, and Diffusion of Innovations
Innovations Adoption of Innovations and Resistance to Adoption Diffusion
What Influences Adoption, Resistance, and Diffusion?
The Consequences of Innovations
Consumer Welfare
Consumerism and Public Policy Issues
What Is Consumerism?
Groups Involved with Public Policy and Consumerism
How Advertising and Selling Practices
Violate Consumer
Rights Product Information and Safety Issues
Environmental Protection Consumerism
Around the World Consumerism in the Future
The Dark Side of Consumer Behavior and Marketing
Deviant Consumer Behavior
Negative Effects of Marketing
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