Consumer Behavior: An Applied Approach (Hardcover)

This reader-friendly book takes an interesting ride down today's information superhighway to the bulging marketplace -- filled with products and services able to satisfy an infinite number of consumer needs and wants. It looks at important developments in consumer behavior -- with cross-functional perspectives, and real-life business examples -- while encouraging users to interact with the Internet.

Topics include consumer research, perception, learning, memory, and attitudes; motivation and emotion; personality, self-concept, and lifestyle; consumer decision making; communication; innovations; group influence, personal influence, and word-of-mouth; social class; and culture and microcultures.