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Table of Contents

    • About the Authors
    • Acknowledgments
    • Dedications
    • Preface
    • 1The Consumer in the Marketplace and Conducting Consumer Research
      • 1.1Shopper, Buyer, and Consumer Benefits
      • 1.2Consumer Benefits and Market Segmentation
      • 1.3Consumer Benefits and Product Positioning
      • 1.4Consumer Research
      • 1.5Measures of Consumer Behavior Constructs
      • 1.6Chapter Review
    • 2The Consumer Decision-Making Process

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      • 2.1The Consumer Decision-Making Process

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      • 2.2Product Need Recognition

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      • 2.3Information Search

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      • 2.4External Search Strategy

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      • 2.5Alternative Evaluation

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      • 2.6Purchase and Consumer Satisfaction

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      • 2.7Postpurchase Behavior

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      • 2.8Chapter Review

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    • 3Symbolic Consumption, Self-Image, and Personality

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      • 3.1Symbolic Consumption

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      • 3.2Self-Image

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      • 3.3Personality

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      • 3.4Chapter Review

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    • 4Personal Values, Lifestyles, Psychographics, and Relationships

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      • 4.1Personal Values

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      • 4.2Consumer Lifestyles

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      • 4.3Relationships and Engagement

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      • 4.4Chapter Review

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    • 5Memory, Learning, Perception, and Cognition

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      • 5.1Memory

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      • 5.2Learning

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      • 5.3Psychophysics

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      • 5.4Perception and Cognition

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      • 5.5Chapter Review

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    • 6Motivation, Emotion, Mood, and Involvement

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      • 6.1Consumer Motivation

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      • 6.2Emotions

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      • 6.3Mood

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      • 6.4Involvement

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      • 6.5Chapter Review

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    • 7Beliefs, Attitude, Intention, and Behavior

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      • 7.1Beliefs

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      • 7.2Attitude

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      • 7.3Intention

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      • 7.4Attitude-Behavior Consistency

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      • 7.5Chapter Review

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    • 8Communication and Persuasion

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      • 8.1Communication Effects

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      • 8.2Communication Process: The Elaboration Likelihood Model

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      • 8.3Source Factors

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      • 8.4Message Factors

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      • 8.5Media Factors

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      • 8.6Chapter Review

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    • 9Culture and Cross-Culture

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      • 9.1Culture

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      • 9.2The “Languages” of Culture

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      • 9.3Culture in the Marketplace: Possessions, Context, and Communications

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      • 9.4Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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      • 9.5Culture in the United States

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      • 9.6Chapter Review

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    • 10Subcultures and Social Class

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      • 10.1Subcultures

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      • 10.2Subcultures Based on Nationality and Ethnicity

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      • 10.3Subcultures Based on Geographic Region and Consumption

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      • 10.4Subcultures Based on Religion and Consumption

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      • 10.5Social Class

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      • 10.6Social Class in the United States

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      • 10.7Values, Attitudes, and Lifestyles across Social Classes

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      • 10.8Social Class and Marketplace Behavior

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      • 10.9Chapter Review

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    • 11Reference Groups, Social Identity, Social Networks, and Social Power

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      • 11.1Reference Group Types and Influences

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      • 11.2Social Identity

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      • 11.3Social Networks

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      • 11.4Social Power

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      • 11.5Chapter Review

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    • 12Household, Family, Women, Youth, and Children

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      • 12.1The Household as a Consumption Unit

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      • 12.2Family Life-Cycle Influences on Consumption Patterns

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      • 12.3Roles of Household Members in the Consumer-Decision Process

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      • 12.4Women and Consumption

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      • 12.5Youth and Consumption

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      • 12.6Children and Consumption

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      • 12.7Chapter Review

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    • 13Organizational Buying

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      • 13.1Organizational Buying

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      • 13.2Organizational Memory

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      • 13.3Models of Decision Making in Organizational Buying

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      • 13.4Chapter Review

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    • 14Sociology of Fashion and Diffusion of Technological Innovations

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      • 14.1Fashion Psychology

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      • 14.2Product Innovation

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      • 14.3Chapter Review

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    • 15Consumer Behavior, Public Policy, and Society

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      • 15.1Regulation of Marketing Practices

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      • 15.2Right to Be Informed

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      • 15.3Right to Safety

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      • 15.4Right to Redress and Right to Choose

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      • 15.5Right to a Healthful Environment and Right to Privacy

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      • 15.6Chapter Review

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    • 16Appendix

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      • 16.1Case A: Ben & Jerry’s (http://www.benjerry.com)

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      • 16.2Case B: AgeLab (http://agelab.mit.edu)

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      • 16.3Case C: S. C. Johnson Company (http://www.scjohnson.com)

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      • 16.4Case D: Facebook (http://www.facebook.com)

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      • 16.5Case E: Netflix (http://www.netflix.com)

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      • 16.6Case F: BlackBerry (http://www.rim.net)

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