Emotion, Adaptive Decision Making, And Consumer Behavior
Published on 11. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-63651-596-0 (ISBN)
Description
In Emotion, Adaptive Decision Making, and Consumer Behavior, James R. Bettman offers a groundbreaking look at the interplay between emotion and decision strategies in shaping consumer actions. Moving beyond rational models, Bettman explores how feelings-both conscious and unconscious-impact attention, memory, and the ultimate choices consumers make.
This book highlights how emotions can trigger shifts in decision tactics, such as when stress leads to simpler, rule-based choices or when positive moods encourage more exploration. With evidence from psychology and consumer research, Bettman illustrates how emotional states interact with information environments and influence outcomes like brand loyalty, risk perception, and satisfaction.
An essential addition to the Legend in Consumer Behavior series, this book is invaluable for anyone in marketing, user experience, or behavioral design who seeks to understand how emotion drives human behavior. Through rigorous research and real-world implications, Bettman provides deep insight into one of the most influential yet often overlooked factors in decision-making: emotion.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63651-596-0 (9781636515960)
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James R. Bettman is Burlington Industries Professor and a member of the Marketing Faculty at the Fuqua School of Business and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He received his BA (mathematics-economics) and PhD (administrative sciences) from Yale University. Prior to joining Duke, he was on the faculty at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on consumer information processing and decision-making, particularly constructive preferences, how decision-makers adapt, eff ects of emotion, the role of nonconscious processes, and how people build identities using consumption. His publications include two books, An Information Processing Th eory of Consumer Choice and Th e Adaptive Decision Maker, a monograph, "Emotional Decisions: Tradeoff Diffi culty and Coping in Consumer Choice", and over 120 research papers in marketing, consumer research, psychology, management, and neuroscience. He is on the Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) and Journal of Consumer Psychology editorial boards, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing Research, and has been a co-editor for JCR. Bettman has been recognized for PhD mentorship throughout his career, receiving Duke's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. He has chaired or co-chaired forty PhD committees. Professor Bettman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Association for Consumer Research, and the American Marketing Association, and a past president of the Association for Consumer Research. He has received the Converse Award, the AMA/Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, Consumer Behavior Special Interest Group Lifetime Achievement Award, Harold Maynard Award, Paul Green Award, and William O'Dell Award from the American Marketing Association; a Career Contribution Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology; a Distinguished Service Award and an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Journal of Consumer Research; and was awarded the Leo Melamed Prize for outstanding scholarship. He also received teaching awards at both UCLA and Duke. In addition to research and mentoring PhD students, Professor Bettman's loves are his wife Joan, his son David, dark chocolate, and rock and roll (ranging from the music of the 1950s to often obscure current alternative bands).