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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Section 1: Foundations of Consumer Behavior
- Chapter 1. Buying, Having, and Being: An Introduction to Consumer Behavior
- Consumer Behavior: People in the Marketplace
- What Is Consumer Behavior?
- A Branded World
- Understanding Consumers Is Good Business
- Consumers, Society, and Technology: A Moving Target
- Social Media: The Horizontal Revolution
- Artificial Intelligence and The Metaverse
- “Big Data” and Data Analytics
- Welcome to the Metaverse!
- Globalization of Brands and Cultural Practices
- Proactive Consumers and User-Generated Content
- Consumer Trends: Keeping Up with the Culture That Won’t Stand Still
- Consumption: From Problem to Solution?
- What Do We Need—Really?
- Toward Responsible Consumption and Responsible Business
- Multiple Perspectives on the Study of Consumer Behavior
- What Disciplines Study Consumer Behavior?
- Where Do We Find Consumer Researchers?
- The Philosophy of This Book
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Alexa—What Is Consumer Behavior?
- Notes
- Chapter 2. Consumer Ethics, the Marketplace, and the Planet
- What Is the “Right” Thing?
- Pestle: The Political Environment
- Consumer Activism
- Corporate Activism
- Slacktivism
- Pestle: The Economic Environment
- Disabled Consumers
- Consumed Consumers
- Pestle: The Social Environment
- Pestle: The Technological Environment
- Data Privacy
- Data Accuracy
- Identity Theft
- Pushing the Envelope
- Technology Addictions
- Pestle: The Legal Environment
- Governmental Regulations and Agencies
- Consumers Behaving Badly
- Pestle: The Natural Environment
- The SHIFT: Changing Consumer Behavior for the Better
- The “Tree-Huggers”
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Carrefour’s New Payment Technologies in the Middle East
- Notes
- Section 2: Making Sense of the World
- Chapter 3. Perceiving and Making Meaning
- Sensation
- Sensory Marketing
- Augmented and Virtual Reality: Welcome to the Metaverse
- The Stages of Perception
- Stage 1: Exposure
- Stage 2: Attention
- Stage 3: Interpretation
- Semiotics: The Meaning ofMeaning
- Who Owns Brand Meanings?
- Marketers Position Brands
- But Ultimately Brand Meanings Live in Consumers’ Minds
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. The Metaverse Is Marketing’s Brave New World
- Notes
- Chapter 4. Learning, Remembering, and Knowing
- How Do We Learn?
- Behavioral Learning Theories
- Classical Conditioning
- Marketing Applications of Classical Conditioning Principles
- Instrumental Conditioning
- Marketing Applications of Instrumental Conditioning Principles
- Cognitive Learning Theory
- Observational Learning
- How Kids Develop Cognitive Skills
- Marketing Applications of Cognitive Learning Principles
- Remembering
- How Our Brains Encode Information
- What Makes Us Forget?
- What Helps Us to Remember?
- How Do We Measure Consumers’ Memories for Marketing Messages?
- Problems with Memory Measures
- Memory Lapses, Biases, and False Memories
- Marketing Applications of Consumers’ Memories
- How Do We Organize What We Know?
- Levels of Knowledge
- How Do We Put Products into Categories?
- “If They Own This, They Must Own That”: Consumption Constellations
- Marketing Applications of Consumers’ Knowledge Structures
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. The Rise of Deinfluencing
- Notes
- Chapter 5. Motivation
- The Motivation Process: Why Ask Why?
- Push or Pull? Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Motivation
- Motivational Drive
- Self-Regulation
- Consumer Needs
- Utilitarian and Hedonic Needs
- How Can We Understand Needs?
- How “Needy” Are You? Individual Differences in Motivation
- Setting and Reaching Goals
- Goal Conflicts
- Goal Framing Affects Goal Completion
- Consumer Involvement
- Types of Involvement
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Game On! Using Gamification to Engage with Consumers
- Notes
- Section 3: Buying and Having: Choosing and Using Products
- Chapter 6. Attitudes and How to Change Them
- The Power of Attitudes
- Attitudes (Generally) Guide our Behavior
- Attitudes, Fast and Slow: Cognitive and Affective Components
- “I Know It”: Cognitive Focus
- “I Feel It”: Affective Focus
- Oops! Attitudes Aren’t as Simple as We Thought
- How Do We Form Attitudes?
- Commitment
- The Consistency Principle
- Balance Theory
- Persuasion: How Do Marketers Change Attitudes?
- Sell the Steak or the Sizzle?: The Elaboration Likelihood Model
- Persuasion Knowledge: Talking Back to Marketers
- Crafting Persuasive Communications Strategies
- Decisions, Decisions: Tactical Communications Options
- The Source
- The Message
- The Medium
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Anti-Smoking Advertising—Can You Be Scared into Quitting?
- Notes
- Chapter 7. Deciding
- Fast or Slow Thinking?
- Rational (Slow) Decision Making
- Steps in the Rational Decision-Making Process
- Fast Thinking and Rules of Thumb
- Behavioral Biases
- Heuristics and Mental Accounting: Take the Shortcut
- The Unseen Power of Context Effects: Framing, Priming, and Nudging
- Framing
- Priming
- Nudging
- Online Decision Making
- Search Engine Optimization
- The Power of Customer Reviews
- Cybermediaries
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. P&G and the Moments of Truth—Just How Many Moments Are There?
- Notes
- Chapter 8. Buying, Using, and Disposing
- The Shopping Experience
- Shop ’til You Drop?
- In-Store Decision Making
- Are You Satisfied?
- E-Commerce and the Digital World
- From Bricks to Clicks
- Shopping Apps and In-Store Tech
- Digital Currencies
- Online Commerce: Raising the Bar
- Liquid Consumption
- New Ways to Have and Use: Ownership and the Sharing Economy
- The Thrill of Thrifting
- The Climate Crisis
- Product Disposal
- Recycling and the Underground Economy
- The Dark Side of Buying and Using
- Addictive and Compulsive Behavior
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. RH—Revolutionizing Physical Retailing
- Notes
- Section 4: Being: Using Products to Create and Communicate Identity
- Chapter 9. Identity and the Self
- The Self
- The Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
- The Self and Others
- The Malleable Self
- We Consume to Express Our Identities
- The Extended Self
- New Ways to Express Identity
- Compensatory Consumption
- Anti-Consumption as Self-Defining
- Embodied Cognition
- Our Digital Selves
- Gender and Consumer Behavior
- Gender Socialization and Gender Roles
- Gender Differences in Consumer Behavior
- Toward Greater Gender Fluidity
- The Quest for Gender Justice and Equality
- The Body
- Ideals of Beauty and Stereotypes
- Body Positivity: Enter the Fatshionistas
- Body Decoration and Mutilation
- The Mechanized Body
- The Quantified Self
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Modest Fashion and the Self
- Notes
- Chapter 10. Personality, Values, and Lifestyles
- Personality
- How Can We Measure Personality?
- Trait Theory
- Values
- Belief Systems
- Values Related to Things
- Values Related to Money
- Values Related to Time
- How Can We Understand Values?
- The Means–End Chain Model
- Syndicated Surveys
- Lifestyles and Consumer Identity
- From What to Why: Psychographics
- The Roles Brands Play in Our Lives
- The Brand Personality
- How Do We Get to “Know” a Brand?
- The Meaning Transfer Model
- Brand Resonance
- Archetypes (Again)
- Spokescharacters
- Congruence between Consumer and Brand
- Lifestyle Brands and Lifestyle Brand Constellations
- Selling Authenticity
- Brand Storytelling
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Jamie Oliver: The Pure and Easy Food Lifestyle
- Notes
- Chapter 11. Social and Cultural Identity
- The Dynamics of Social Identity
- Facets of Social and Cultural Identity
- The Dynamics of Identity
- Salient Identity Cues
- Threats to Social Identity
- Intersectionality
- The Family
- The Meaning of Family
- Going Nuclear? The Structure of the Household Evolves
- The Family Life Cycle
- Parenting and Consumer Behavior
- Age and Generations
- Teenagers
- “Tweens”
- Consumers Aging Gracefully: Retirement and Beyond
- Age Cohorts
- Ethnic and Racial Identities
- Ethnic and Racial Identity
- Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the U.S.
- Showing Respect: Ethnic and Racial Symbols
- Religious and Political Identity
- Religion and Consumption
- Marketing to Muslims
- Political Identity
- Community (Geographic and Place-Based Subcultures)
- Geodiversity
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. The Modern Family: How Brands Embrace Changing Household Structures
- Notes
- Section 5: Belonging
- Chapter 12. How Groups Define Us
- Sources of Group Influences
- Reference Groups
- Social Norms: How Groups Change Our Behavior
- Differences in Susceptibility to Influence
- Word of Mouth
- Viral Marketing and Buzz Building
- Negative WOM
- Buzz Gone Bad
- Information Flows in Social Networks: Who Knows Whom?
- Who Influences Us: Opinion Leaders and Social Media Influencers
- Who Influences Us: Collective Decision Making
- The Collective Decision Making Process
- The Intimate Corporation: Collective Decision Making in Households
- Collective Decision Making in Organizations
- Who Influences Us: Consumer Communities
- Consumer Collectives
- A Culture of Participation
- Brand Communities
- Support Groups
- Gaming Communities
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Lush Is Trying to Find an Authentic Voice Online
- Notes
- Chapter 13. Social Class and Status
- What Is Social Class?
- Social Class Provides a Set of Resources
- Social Distinction, Taste, and Habitus
- Online Capital
- “Is That a Yoga Mat?” Taste Cultures and Codes
- How Do We Measure Social Class?
- Social Class Structures
- Social Stratification
- Social Mobility
- Some Key Factors That Influence Consumer Behavior within and across Social Classes
- Social Status and Consumption
- To Whom Do We Compare Ourselves?
- Status Symbols
- The Meaning of “Luxury”
- Social Inequality, Poverty, and Social Justice
- The Bottom of the Pyramid: Low-Income Consumers
- The Role of Consumption in Social Justice: Walk the Walk
- Social Responsibility
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Are Dollar Stores Really Cheaper?
- Notes
- Chapter 14. Culture
- Cultural Systems
- Dimensions of Culture
- How We Learn about Our Culture
- Cultural Meaning Creation and Movement
- Myths
- Consumption Rituals
- Rituals and Community
- Ritual Artifacts and Scripts
- Products Are Vessels of Cultural Meanings
- Sacred and Profane Products
- Global Consumer Culture
- The Diffusion of Innovations
- How Do We Decide to Adopt an Innovation?
- What Determines Whether an Innovation Will Diffuse?
- The Diffusion of Consumption Practices
- The Fashion System
- Consumers as Sources of Innovations
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Review
- Consumer Behavior Challenge
- Case Study. Kit Kat: Stop, Sit, and Break
- Notes
- Appendices
- Appendix A. Data Cases
- Case 1: Analyzing the Athletic Shoe Market
- Case 2: Evolving Trends in Fitness and French Fries
- Case 3: Cats, Kibble, and Commercials
- Case 4: Going Global with Juice
- Appendix B. Careers in Consumer Research
- Appendix C. Consumer Research Methods
- Appendix D. Sources of Secondary Data
- Glossary
- Indexes
- Name Index
- Company and Brand Name Index
- Subject Index




