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Consumer
Behavior
For
courses in Consumer Behavior.
Kardes
approaches the subject of consumer behavior by using experimental psychology as the
foundation, and presents his material in three overlapping sections. The text not only
discusses the principles and scientific research of consumer behavior but demonstrates how
companies and organizations use them every day.
How
consumers acquire, remember, and use product knowledge (Section I).
Provides
students with the basic building blocks needed for understanding what information
consumers use and how they use it.
Persuasion
and influence (Section II).
Shows
students how to persuade and influence consumers more successfully through the effective
use of advertising, promotion, and other marketing tools.
Managerial
decision making (Section III).
Helps
students use the arsenal of marketing tools and principles that is available to them, and
helps them understand their own problem-solving and decision-making skills more fully.
Taking
Issue boxes In each chapter. Uses real companies or situations to discuss
ethical issues in consumer behavior e.g., the use of credit card logos to encourage
spending, new on-line stock trading, and Coca Cola's agreement with Boys & Girls Clubs
of America to sponsor tournaments and promote Coke products.
Making
the Decision boxes Shows how companies implement consumer behavior principles
in their marketing and advertising campaigns or how consumer decisions affect companies.
These boxes profile both solid and questionable company decisions, e.g., one box discusses
different companies' use of the Internet to enhance product demonstrations and provide
additional consumer information, and another discusses Mercedes' decision to build a
low-priced, basic car, which fights against its premium image in the marketplace.
Websites,
Advertisements, photos, and illustrations Interspersed throughout.
Shows
students how companies appeal to consumers. The Websites demonstrate how marketers are
using the Internet's global reach to tap new markets; photographs of products discussed in
the text supplement chapter discussions; and colorful graphs and charts summarize and help
reinforce major text concepts.
Strong
pedagogical support Chapter outlines, chapter-opening vignettes, chapter summaries,
key concepts lists, end-of-chapter Thinking Scientifically questions, and
end-of-chapter Scientific Situations exercises.
1. The Scientific Study of Consumer Behavior.
I. HOW
CONSUMERS ACQUIRE, REMEMBER, AND USE PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE.
2.
Consumer Attention and Comprehension.
3. Consumer Memory.
4. Consumer Judgment.
5. Consumer Choice.
II.
PERSUASION AND INFLUENCE.
6. The
Message-Learning Approach to Persuasion.
7. Cognitive Approaches to Persuasion.
8. Affective and Motivational Approaches to Persuasion.
9. Self-Persuasion Principles.
10. Social Influence Principles.
III.
MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING.
11.
Segmentation Strategies.
12. New Product Development.
13. Product Management.
14. Biases in Managerial Decision Making.
15. Strategies for Improving Managerial Decision Making.
494
pages