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Personality and Consumer Behavior: A Review
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Marketing researchers have repeatedly attempted to relate purchasing behavior, media choice, innovation, and other marketing phenomena to personality, with varying degrees of success. This article reviews this mass of literature and draws some conclusions on the present state of knowledge.
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“The relationship between broad or more general personality traits, such as the Big Five (John & Srivastava, 1999;McCrae & Costa, 1997) or universal human values (Bilsky & Schwartz, 1994;Rokeach, 1973), and specific behavior is weak (e.g., Homer & Kahle, 1988;Kassarjian, 1971;Lunn, Nowson, Worsley, & Torres, 2014).”
From Relationships between functional food consumption and individual traits and values: A segmentation approach (2021) · cites this paper as Kassarjian, 1971
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“However, both personality traits and universal values are relatively stable and transcend specific actions and situations (Kassarjian, 1971;Schwartz & Bilsky, 1987), distinguishing these constructs from attitudes and intentions that usually refer to more specific actions, objects, or situations.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kassarjian, H. H.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kassarjian, Harold H.
- Venue
- Journal of Marketing Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1971-11
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 409-418
- ISSN
- 0022-2437 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-7193
- OpenAlex
- W2326206704
- Cited by
- 601
- References
- 72
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 32.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Marketing Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Behavior and Marketing Influence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Consumer Behavior and Market Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- personality, consumer behavior, purchasing behavior, media selection, innovation adoption
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