Consumer Behavior and Managerial Decision Making - Hardcover

Frank R. Kardes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321001990 ISBN 13: 9780321001993

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover

This scientific, sophisticated, yet readable book approaches the subject of consumer behavior by using a rigorous scientific orientation, and presenting material in three overlapping sections: basic concepts, persuasion, and managerial decision making. It discusses the principles and scientific investigation of consumer behavior and demonstrates how companies and organizations use them strategically every day. Chapter topics include consumer attention and comprehension; consumer memory, judgment, and choice; the message-learning approach to persuasion; affective and motivational approaches to persuasion; self-persuasion and social influence principles; online consumer behavior; new product development; product management; and strategies for improving managerial decision making. For individuals concerned with the attitudes and activities of today's buyer in the marketplace.

About the Author

Frank R. Kardes is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Cincinnati and a former faculty member of the Sloan School of Management at MIT. His research focuses on a wide range of topics in consumer psychology and product management&151;including consumer judgment and inference processes, persuasion and advertising, the pioneering brand advantage, and judgment based on limited evidence. His research has appeared in many leading scientific journals, and he is frequently invited to present his research at leading universities throughout the world (including Wharton, INSEAD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the London Business School). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, International Quarterly Journal of Marketing, and Marketing Letters. Dr. Kardes is a former Co-Editor of the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Advances in Consumer Research, and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. Dr. Kardes is a former President of the Society for Consumer Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Consumer Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321001990
• ISBN 13: 9780321001993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 505