Demographic Behavior: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Decision-Making

Population ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 677
Author(s):  
H. L. B. ◽  
T. K. Burch
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Saumendra Das ◽  
Padhy P K

Consumer decision-making process varies with the type of buying decision.There are great differences between buying a toothpaste brand, a tennis racket, a personal computer and a new car. Complex and expensive purchases are likely to involve more buyer deliberation and more participation. Usually evaluating consumer behavior goes afar from advertising and marketing concepts to connect consumers and to understand their behaviors,motivations and sincere needs. Further consumer behavior is individually influenced by physical and social environment where one has to assume his or her perception on product,brand, service, or company. However, they may purchase any products as a result of their moods and ambiance. Most of the time consumer feels secure when the products are satisfying their needs surround to society and environment that one lives and communicates easily with its demographic factors. In this particular study, the main purpose is to understand the demographic behavior of consumer towards selected brands of toothpaste. Here the researcher randomly selected 485 respondents from Berhampur city of Odisha state and adopted descriptive research design. The study provides the association between the buying behaviors of consumers towards selected brands of toothpaste with respect to their demographic factors. Further, the data has been analyzed by one way ANOVAs and results interpreted.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Simen ◽  
Fuat Balcı

AbstractRahnev & Denison (R&D) argue against normative theories and in favor of a more descriptive “standard observer model” of perceptual decision making. We agree with the authors in many respects, but we argue that optimality (specifically, reward-rate maximization) has proved demonstrably useful as a hypothesis, contrary to the authors’ claims.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Danks

AbstractThe target article uses a mathematical framework derived from Bayesian decision making to demonstrate suboptimal decision making but then attributes psychological reality to the framework components. Rahnev & Denison's (R&D) positive proposal thus risks ignoring plausible psychological theories that could implement complex perceptual decision making. We must be careful not to slide from success with an analytical tool to the reality of the tool components.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.


2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
David R. Shanks ◽  
Ben R. Newell

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