Musical Identities
Musical Identities

Author: Raymond A. R. MacDonald

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002-07-18

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0198509324

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Music plays an important role in all our lives, and is a channel through which we can express emotions, thoughts, political statements, and social relationships. However, just as music can be a channel through which we express ourselves, it can also have a profound influence on our own developing sense of identity. This is the first book to explore the powerful effect that music can have as we develop our sense of identity, from adolescence through to adulthood. Bringing together leading experts from psychology and music, it will be a valuable addition to the music psychology literature, and essential for music psychologists, social and developmental psychologists, and educational psychologists.

Interpreting Consumer Choice
Interpreting Consumer Choice

Author: Gordon Foxall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1135238081

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Interpretive consumer research usually proceeds with a minimum of structure and preconceptions. This book presents a more structured approach than is usual, showing how a simple framework that embodies the rewards and costs associated with consumer choice can be used to interpret a wide range of consumer behaviours from everyday purchasing and saving, innovative choice, imitation, ‘green’ consumer behavior, to compulsive behaviors such as addictions (to shopping, to gambling, to alcohol and other drugs, etc). Foxall takes a qualitative approach to interpreting behavior, focusing on the epistemological problems that arise in such research and emphasizing the emotional as well as cognitive aspects of consumption. The author argues that consumer behaviour can be understood with the aid of a very simple model that proposes how the consequences of consumption impact consumers’ subsequent choices. The objective is to show that a basic model can be used to interpret consumer behaviour in general, not in isolation from the marketing influences that shape it, but as a course of human choice that is dynamically linked with managerial concerns.

Social Influence and Consumer Behavior
Social Influence and Consumer Behavior

Author: Daniel J. Howard

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138844872

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This collection of innovative essays examines the effects of social influence on consumer behavior processes and outcomes. The research focus is on social and consumer theory in helping to understand the interface between these two domains, with chapters investigating this interface from multiple perspectives thus providing diverse theoretical contributions to the discussion. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Social Influence.

Online Consumer Behavior
Online Consumer Behavior

Author: Angeline Close

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1848729693

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First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Handbook of Research on Consumer Behavior Change and Data Analytics in the Socio-Digital Era
Handbook of Research on Consumer Behavior Change and Data Analytics in the Socio-Digital Era

Author: Keikhosrokiani, Pantea

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2022-06-24

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1668441705

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The emergence of new technologies within the industrial revolution has transformed businesses to a new socio-digital era. In this new era, businesses are concerned with collecting data on customer needs, behaviors, and preferences for driving effective customer engagement and product development, as well as for crucial decision making. However, the ever-shifting behaviors of consumers provide many challenges for businesses to pinpoint the wants and needs of their audience. The Handbook of Research on Consumer Behavior Change and Data Analytics in the Socio-Digital Era focuses on the concepts, theories, and analytical techniques to track consumer behavior change. It provides multidisciplinary research and practice focusing on social and behavioral analytics to track consumer behavior shifts and improve decision making among businesses. Covering topics such as consumer sentiment analysis, emotional intelligence, and online purchase decision making, this premier reference source is a timely resource for business executives, entrepreneurs, data analysts, marketers, advertisers, government officials, social media professionals, libraries, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.