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Consumer behavior

Here are entered works on the decision-making processes, external factors, and individual characteristics of consumers that determine their purchasing behavior. Works on the selection and efficient use of consumer goods and services and on methods of educating consumers are entered under Consumer education.

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• Human behavior

• Market surveys

• Consumer behavior -- United States
• Boycotts
• Consumers' preferences

• Behavior, Consumer
• Buyer behavior
• Decision making, Consumer

• The Scoring of America: How Secret Consumer Scores Threaten Your Privacy and Your Future (San Diego: World Privacy Forum, 2014), by Pam Dixon and Robert Gellman (PDF with commentary at worldprivacyforum.org)

• The Buying Habits of Small-Town Women (1926), by Mary E. Hoffman (page images at LOC)
• Agriculture Information Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (originally published 2000; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Regina Lee Blaszczyk (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (ca. 1957), by Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) (PDF at crmvet.org)

• The Arab Boycott and American Export Law: A Brief Guide for Companies Active in the Middle East (1979), by Institute of Human Relations (American Jewish Committee) (PDF at ajcarchives.org)
• The Impact of Anti-Boycott Laws on U.S. Mideast Trade (1979), by American Jewish Committee (PDF with commentary at ajcarchives.org)
• Battling the Boycott: The Achievement of Federal Legislation, 1977, by Alfred H. Moses (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), by David K. Levine
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (originally published 2000; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Regina Lee Blaszczyk (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Discrete Choice Methods With Simulation (2003), by Kenneth Train (PDF files at Berkeley)

• Consumer-Citizens of China: The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China (London and New York: Routledge, c2011), by Kelly Tian and Lily Dong
  • PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Industrial Policy and Semiconductors: Missing the Target (Washington: AEI Press, 1995), by Andrew Ronald Dick (PDF at AEI)
• Flat Panel Displays in Perspective (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• A Brief History of Human Behaviour, and How to Become an Enlightened Global Citizen (c2013), by John Preece (multiple formats with commentary at Smashwords)
• Edges of the State (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by John Protevi (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency (London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, c2009), ed. by Séverine Deneulin and Lila Shahani (PDF and illustrated HTML at idrc.ca)
• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)
• The Manipulation of Human Behavior (New York and London: John Wiley and Sons, c1961), ed. by Albert D. Biderman and Herbert Zimmer (HTML at archive.org)
• Conflict, Arousal, and Curiosity (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960), by D. E. Berlyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reviewing the Behavioral Science Knowledge Base on Technology Transfer, ed. by Thomas E. Backer, Susan L. David, and Gerald Soucy (PDF at NIH)
• Behavioral Analysis and Treatment of Substance Abuse, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Tyneside Neighbourhoods: Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Sin of Hagar (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1896), by Helen Mathers (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Femme et le Pantin: Roman Espagnol (in French; 1898), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)
• A Modern Mephistopheles; and A Whisper in the Dark (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Louisa May Alcott (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Romanticism and Biopolitics (2012), ed. by Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Edges of the State (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by John Protevi (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Delusion and Mass-Delusion (New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1949), by Joost Meerloo (page images at HathiTrust)

• T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim Bey (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Social Deviancy and Adolescent Personality: An Analytical Study with the MMPI (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1962), by John C. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• AIDS and Behavior: An Integrated Approach (1994), ed. by Judith D. Auerbach, Christina Wypijewska, and Keith H. Brodie (page images at NAP)
• Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Diane E. Goldstein (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Exploring Information Behaviour: An Introduction (in multiple languages; c2022), by Thomas D. Wilson (multiple formats at informationr.net)
• How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Publications (2018), by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger (PDF at renewconsultants.com)
• Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Introduction to Biological Psychology (Sussex, UK: University of Sussex Library, 2023), ed. by Catherine Hall (multiple formats at Sussex)
• A Species in Denial (originally published 2003; revised online edition ca. 2009), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Charles Birch (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Target Risk: Dealing with the Danger of Death, Disease and Damage in Everyday Decisions (1994), by Gerald J. S. Wilde (HTML with commentary in Canada)
• Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Molly Wallace
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Risk and Decision Making: Perspectives and Research, by National Research Council Committee on Risk and Decision Making (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays on Work and Culture, by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text)
• The Part Played by Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Value of Order (Deep River, CT: National Foremen's Institute, c1942), by Harry Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philosophy of Labor According to Thomas Aquinas: A Study in Social Philosophy (dissertation; Catholic University of America Philosophical Studies v49; 1939), by Sylvester Michael Killeen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Will-Power and Work (third edition; New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co;, 1922), by Jules Payot, trans. by Richard Duffy
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.