1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136847103321

Autore

Foxall Gordon R

Titolo

Perspectives on Consumer Choice : From Behavior to Action, from Action to Agency / / by Gordon R. Foxall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137501219

1137501219

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 326 p. 27 illus.)

Disciplina

658.8

Soggetti

Marketing

Neuropsychology

Psychology, Industrial

Work and Organizational Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Explaining Consumer Choice -- Chapter 2 Consumer Choice as Behavior -- Chapter 3 Beyond Behaviorism -- Chapter 4 The Ascription of Intentionality -- Chapter 5 Intentional Psychologies -- Chapter 6 Consumer Choice as Action -- Chapter 7 Consumer Choice as Decision: Micro-Cognitive Psychology -- Chapter 8 Consumer Choice as Decision: Macro-Cognitive Psychology -- Chapter 9 Consumer Choice as Decision: Meso-Cognitive Psychology -- Chapter 10 Consumer Choice as Agency -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Evaluating the ways in which we construe consumer choice, this book examines the psychology, methods and realities of the role it plays for today’s consumer. Confronted by competing brands and products, services, and e-tailed opportunities that are but a click away, how does the consumer choose among them to achieve the particular array of goods to suit their lifestyle? Consumer researchers often seek to explain consumer choice by attributing it to beliefs, desires, attitudes, and intentions in the absence of any theoretical justification. Perspectives on Consumer Choice is the outcome of a research program that employs cognitive explanations in a responsible and



disciplined way to genuinely elucidate consumer choice in social scientific terms. Employing a reasoned approach to understanding consumption, this book builds upon theoretical and empirical research in economic psychology, behavioral economics and philosophy as well as marketing and consumer research. .