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Available in paperback for the first time, this new, updated and revised second edition contains a thought-provoking new introduction and epilogue. Philip Graves explores the mind gap between conscious and unconscious thought and behavior. He reveals the myriad tricks and psychological games shops play on we, the consumer; the ways in which we are manipulated into buying things we dont want; the ways in which we deceive ourselves; and the cutting edge behavioral science being used to change our habits to even more significant degrees.
Along the way, Graves reveals:
  • Why the current practice of market research is a false science
  • Why we often dont buy what we say we will
  • How to understand consumers better than they do themselves

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Praise for
CONSUMER.OLOGY

This is an eye-opening, thoroughly researched and tightly argued book. It will alarm some, enrage others and state the obvious for many.
Danny Flamberg, Manhattan Marketing Maven

Consumer behavior consultant Graves maintains that the most important factor that influences the publics opinion of a product is the subconscious or unconscious. He contends that asking individuals to describe why they like or dont like a product can only represent the conscious aspects and not the overarching unconscious facets that pervade our decision-making processes A good read for anyone interested in the psychology of group behavior or the validity of market research methods as well as for those in the business sector trying to introduce new products to the public.
Poppy Johnson-Renvall in Library Journal (US)

The author takes us on a fascinating romp through the psychological underpinnings of consumer behaviour Its well written, accessible and entertaining, yet thought provoking.
Consumer.ology is a rich digest of insights on consumer psychology. It should be essential reading for marketers and general managers, and carefully hidden away from anyone whose livelihood depends on market research.
Alan Giles, The Marketing Society and Associate Fellow,
Sad Business School, University of Oxford

Consumer.ology is a publishing phenomenon Graves has transformed what was largely guesswork into something approaching a new branch of science -- the science of consumer behaviour. And because his writing style is light, its a happy read. Its only later that you realise hes managed to realign your radar and liberate your thinking.
Cambridge Business Magazine

There are lots of great anecdotes and examples in this excellent book.
Faris Yakob, Talent imitates, genius steals blog

This is a well-researched, lucidly written book that will force the market research industry to address some fairly troubling questions about what it does and how it does it. By implication, the academic research business is in the firing line too, given that empirical data is often collected using the same techniques.
John Fahy, Professor of Marketing and author of the bestselling textbook Foundations of Marketing

After a career in market research, Graves delivers a stinging rebuke to his profession. He does more than just show marketers the error of their ways. He shows them a path to better insight.
Richard Cree in Director magazine

One of Director magazines 10 original thinkers, 10 big ideas to shape the UKs recovery

[A] withering critique of market research science Consumer.ology is primarily aimed at a business readership but theres thought-provoking stuff in here for the rest of us.
The Scotsman

Fascinating stuff.
Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2

Consumer.ology is a refreshingly iconoclastic skewer through the heart of traditional market research methods and reason. Graves peppering of psychological theory with pithy anecdotes of misguided consumer successes and failures is bound to at once ruffle feathers and get heads nodding within marketing and innovation circles.
Blake H. Glenn, Senior Inventor, ?What If! The Innovation Company

CONSUMER.OLOGY

The Truth about Consumers and
the Psychology of Shopping

PHILIP GRAVES

To my father Ray who encouraged me to think This revised paperback edition - photo 1

To my father, Ray, who encouraged me to think.

This revised paperback edition first published by
Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2013
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Philip Graves is a consumer behavior consultant, author, and speaker. Twenty years observing consumers as a market research manager and research consultant made him aware of a conflict between what people said in research and what they actually did, which led to the introduction of the psychology of shopping into his work. He has advised numerous international businesses, including Comet, ITV, Whirlpool, Dr Martens, New Covent Garden Food Company, Camelot, Virgin Media, Hotpoint, and Pepsi. In addition to running his own consultancy business, Shift, Philip is an associate of Frontier Economics.

See his website at www.philipgraves.net .

FOREWORD

by KEVIN HOGAN

It begins with considering someones past choices

Why did you go and do that?
I dont know!
What were you thinking?
I was hoping

(or some other on-the-spot confabulation or after-the-fact rationalization is constructed here)

that XYZ was going to happen.

And then there is the prediction of future behavior

Would you buy this product, if it were in the store?
Yes, it would be great! I love it.
If we offered this service would you buy it?
Definitely.

When looking at the future, people have almost no fortune-telling ability as to how they will behave or what they might or might not buy. Furthermore, they certainly cant accurately tell you why they did something in the past.

Now you dont have to ask.

The human brain operates on a system of short cuts and rules of thumb. Without these corner-cutting decision-making tools wed never get anything done in life. And because of the same neural wiring, we often get ourselves in a heap of trouble doing some incredibly foolish things.

Throughout human behaviors there are dozens of types of short cuts in decision making that help you know what people will do in the future. You can also pretty much know why people did things in the past without asking them.

And for businesses which need to bring profitable products and services to market, they never have to burn good money on focus groups, which have a horrible track record for predicting future results of behavior for most types of products and services.

Philip Graves has put together an excellent guide to understanding how to know what people will and wont do. Hell show you why people did things in the past that made no sense at all, both in retrospect and in real time.

Ive studied consumer behavior for two decades and have concluded that there is a profitable and useful way to navigate the very expensive waters of product testing and understanding the drives and emotions behind the rationale and thinking of consumers decision making.

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