Consumer Decision Making and Beyond MKT 344 Lecturer NNA: Consumer Behavior, Ninth Edition Schiffman & Kanuk
Consumer Decision Making and Beyond MKT 344 Lecturer NNA: Consumer Behavior, Ninth Edition Schiffman & Kanuk
Consumer Decision Making and Beyond MKT 344 Lecturer NNA: Consumer Behavior, Ninth Edition Schiffman & Kanuk
Ninth Edition
An Economic View:
to behave rationally in the economic sense, a
consumer would have to
▪ Be aware of all available product alternatives
▪ Be capable of correctly ranking each alternative in
terms of its benefits and disadvantages
▪ Be able to identify the one best alternative
Follows the principle of maximum utility based on
diminishing marginal utility
Models of Consumers: Four Views of
Consumer Decision Making
Criticisms of Economic
View:
People are limited by their
▪ existing skills and habits
▪ existing values and goals
▪ the extent of their knowledge
Models of Consumers: Four Views of
Consumer Decision Making
A Passive View
Consumers are submissive to promotional efforts
Consumers are perceived as impulsive and
irrational purchasers
Consumers can be manipulated by skilled sales
people
Models of Consumers: Four Views of
Consumer Decision Making
A Cognitive View
Portrays consumers as thinking problem solvers or
information processors
▪ Consumers gather sufficient information instead of all
information
▪ Consumers tend to make a “satisfactory” decision
instead of making a perfect decision
Models of Consumers: Four Views of
Consumer Decision Making
An Emotional View
Also called impulsive view
Driven by consumer emotion and mood
Rather than carefully searching and evaluating
alternatives before buying, consumers are just as
likely to have made many of these purchases on
impulse because they were emotionally driven
Discussion Questions
Input:
Marketing inputs
Sociocultural inputs
The Process of Consumer Decision
Making
Process:
Need Recognition
Pre-purchase Search
Evaluation of Alternatives
Psychological field
Need Recognition
Evoked set
Criteria used for evaluating brands
Consumer decision rules and their application
Decisions by functionally illiterate population
Going online for decision-making assistance
Lifestyles as a consumer decision strategy
Incomplete information
Series of decisions
Decision rules and marketing strategy
Issues in Alternative Evaluation
All brands
Purchase behavior
Three types of behavior
▪ Trial purchases
▪ Repeat purchases
▪ Long-term commitment
Postpurchase Evaluation
Post-purchase evaluation
Actual Performance Matches Expectations
▪ Neutral Feeling
Actual Performance Exceeds Expectations
▪ Positive Disconfirmation of Expectations
Performance Is Below Expectations
▪ Negative Disconfirmation of Expectations
This article in
Cargo is
designed to
help a reader
reduce their
postpurchase
depression.
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A Simple Model of Consumption
Figure 16-5
Marketing aimed at
creating strong, lasting
relationships with a core
group of customers by
Relationship making them feel good
Marketing about the company and
by giving them some
kind of personal
connection with the
business.
Proctor & Gamble Builds Relationships
with Their Brands
State Farm
Insurance stresses
relationship
marketing in their
advertising.