This book promises to be a contemporary classic. With contributions from leading scholars, including Sidney Levy and Jagdish Sheth, this volume sets the standard as the most comprehensive, cutting edge resource on the subject of consumer behavior.

Part I: Introduction; Preface; A History of the Study of Consumer Behavior; Climate, Culture, and Consumption: Connecting the Dots; Part II: Well-Being; Materialism: Conceptualizations, Antecedents, and Consequences; The Therapeutic Utility of Shopping: Retail Therapy, Emotion Regulation, and Well-Being; Part III: Perception; Drivers, Consequences, and Remedies of Biased Size Perceptions in Marketing; Implications of Product Anthropomorphism Through Design; Part IV: Learning & Memory; The Recall and Use of Narratives as Declarative and Procedural Consumer Knowledge; The Lies Consumers Tell: The Opportunities and Challenges of Studying Consumer Deception; Part V: Self/Gender; The Interplay of the Desired and Undesired Selves in Everyday Consumption; Gender and the Self: Traversing Feminisms, Masculinities, and Intersectionality Towards Transformative Perspectives; Part VI: Motivation/Values/Personality; Social Values in Consumer Psychology: Key Determinants of Human Behavior; The Dynamics of Multiple Goal Pursuit: Situation and Personality as Determinants of Goal Stickiness and Switching; Part VII: Decision Making; Pricing in the Digital Age: Implications for Consumer Behavior; The Quantified Self: Self-Regulation in Cyborg Consumers; Part VIII: Attitudes & Branding; How Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Brands Are Shaped; Brand Attitude Structure; Part IX: Language; The Influence of Marketing Language On Brand Attitudes and Choice; On the Search for the Perfect Brand Name; Part X: Buying/Retailing/Services/Disposal; How Retailing Cues Influence Shopping Perceptions and Behavior; Using Visual Design to Improve Customer Perceptions of Online Assortments; Part XI: Family Power and Gender Dynamics in Contemporary Families; Conducting International Consumer Research with Children: Challenges and Potential Solutions; Part XII: Groups/Social Media Social Media; Segmented Clusters versus Social Groupings & Status Games: The Changing Landscape of Luxury Consumers; Part XIII: Subcultures; Community Lost: The Unrealized Collaborative Market Potential of Credit Unions Hope; Coconstructing institutions one brick at a time: appropriation and deliberation on LEGO Ideas; Part XIV: Social Class/Power; The Hidden Hand of Social Class; Impoverished Consumers: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Should Do; Part XV: CultureMultiple Shades of Culture: Insights from Experimental Consumer Research; The Case for Exploring Cultural Rituals as Consumption Contexts; Part XVI: Applied Consumer Behavior; Consumer Behavior in the Marketing Information Ecosystem; Emerging Trends for Consumer Behavior Practitioners