Consumer Behavior, International Edition - Softcover

Hoyer, Wayne; MacInnis, Deborah J.; Pieters, Rik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1133274498 ISBN 13: 9781133274490

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2012

Synopsis

Very good condition. Highly recommended book for all marketing students.

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Part I: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. 1. Understanding Consumer Behavior. Appendix: Developing Information about Consumer Behavior. Part II: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CORE. 2. Motivation, Ability, and Opportunity. 3. Exposure, Attention, and Perception. 4. Memory, Knowledge, and Comprehension 5. Attitudes Based on High Effort. 6. Attitudes Based on Low Effort. Part III: THE PROCESS OF MAKING DECISIONS. 7. Problem Recognition and Information Search. 8. Judgment and Decision Making Based on High Effort. 9. Judgment and Decision Making Based on Low Effort. 10. Post-Decision Processes. Part IV: THE CONSUMER'S CULTURE. 11. Social Influences on Consumer Behavior 12. Consumer Diversity. 13. Household Influences and Social Class Influences. 14. Psychographics: Values, Personality, and Lifestyles. Part V: CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OUTCOMES AND ISSUES. 16. Adoption of, Resistance to, and Diffusion of Innovations. 17. Symbolic Consumer Behavior. 18. Ethics, Social Responsibility, and the Consumer Society. ONLINE CHAPTER: Consumerism and Public Policy.

About the Author:

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 (including miscomprehension, humor, and brand personality). Dr. Hoyer has published more than 100 articles in academic journals, such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, and other marketing and psychology forums. His 1998 article on assortment perceptions (with Susan Broniarczyk and Leigh McAlister) won the 2003 O’Dell Award from the American Marketing Association. He has also been the Montezemolo Visiting Research Fellow in the Judge School of Business and is a Visiting Fellow of Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge (UK). Dr. Hoyer has taught internationally at the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Mannheim, the University of Muenster, and the Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany), the University of Bern (Switzerland), and Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand).

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1133274498
• ISBN 13: 9781133274490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560