Consumer behavior

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hoyer, Wayne D. (Author), MacInnis, Deborah J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin , c2007
Edition:4th ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
  • 1. Understanding consumer behavior
  • 2. Developing and using information about consumer behavior
  • pt. 2. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CORE
  • 3. Motovation, ability, and opportunity
  • 4. Exposure, attention, and perception
  • 5. Knowledge and understanding
  • 6. Attitudes based in high consumer effort
  • 7. Attitudes based on low consumer effort
  • 8. Memory and retrieval
  • pt. 3. THE PROCESS OF MAKING DECISIONS
  • 9. Problem recognition and information search
  • 10. Judgement and decision making based on high consumer effort
  • 11. Judgement and decision making based on low consumer effort
  • 12. Post-decision processes
  • pt. 4. THE CONSUMER'S CULTURE
  • 13. Consumer diversity
  • 14. Social class and household influences
  • 15. Psychographics: values, personality, and lifestyles
  • pt. 5. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OUTCOMES
  • 16. Social influences on consumer behavior
  • 17. Adoption of, resistance to, and diffusion of innovations
  • pt. 6. CONSUMER WELFARE
  • 18. Symbolic consumer behavior
  • 19. Consumerism and public policy issues
  • 20. The dark side of consumer behavior and marketing