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  2. Consumer behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organisations and all activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services.It encompasses how the consumer's emotions, attitudes, and preferences affect buying behaviour.

  3. Psychology of collecting - Wikipedia

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    The psychology of collecting is an area of study that seeks to understand the motivating factors explaining why people devote time, money, and energy making and maintaining collections. There exist a variety of theories for why collecting behavior occurs, including consumerism, materialism, neurobiology and psychoanalytic theory.

  4. Novelty seeking - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, novelty seeking (NS) is a personality trait associated with exploratory activity in response to novel stimulation, impulsive decision making, extravagance in approach to reward cues, quick loss of temper, and avoidance of frustration. [1]

  5. Buyer decision process - Wikipedia

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    As part of consumer behavior, the buying decision process is the decision-making process used by consumers regarding the market transactions before, during, and after the purchase of a good or service. It can be seen as a particular form of a cost–benefit analysis in the presence of multiple alternatives. [1] [2]

  6. List of social psychology theories - Wikipedia

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    Social psychology utilizes a wide range of specific theories for various kinds of social and cognitive phenomena. Here is a sampling of some of the more influential theories that can be found in this branch of psychology. Attribution theory – is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behaviour of others. The theory ...

  7. VALS - Wikipedia

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    VALS2 places less emphasis on activities and interests and more on a psychological base to tap relatively enduring attitudes and values. The VALS2 program has two dimensions. The first dimension, Self-orientation, determines the type of goals and behaviours that individuals will pursue, and refers to patterns of attitudes and activities which ...

  8. Value-action gap - Wikipedia

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    Behaviors can also be restricted by external or situational constraints which refer to restrictions outside the individual's control, such as economic or political factors. [7] There are many different theories regarding how consumers make decisions. These can be applied to try to explain why there is a value-action gap for some behaviors.

  9. Shopping addiction - Wikipedia

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    Shopping addiction is characterized by an eagerness to purchase unnecessary or superfluous things and a lack of impulse control when it comes to shopping. It is a concept similar to compulsive buying disorder (oniomania), but usually has a more psychosocial perspective, [1] or is viewed as a drug-free addiction like addiction to gambling, Internet, or video games. [2]