消费者行为学外文文献翻译(含：英文原文及中文译文)英文原文Psychological Factors Influencing Buyer BehaviorGeoff LancasterPsychological factors are the fourth major influence on consumer buying behavior (in addition to cultural, social, and personal factors). In general, a pers on’s buying choices are influenced by the psychological factors of motivation, perception, learning, beliefs, and attitudes.Importance of understanding customer motivesThe task of marketing is to identify co nsumers’ needs and wants accurately, then to develop products and services that will satisfy them. For marketing to be successful, it is not sufficient to merely discover what customers require, but to find out why it is required. Only by gaining a deep and comprehensive understanding of buyer behavior can marketing’s goals be realized. Such an understanding of buyer behavior works to the mutual advantage of the consumer and marketer, allowing the marketer to become better equipped to satisfy the consumer ’s needs efficiently and establish a loyal group of customers with positive attitudes towards the company’s products.Consumer behavior can be formally defined as: the acts of individuals directly involved in obtaining and using economic goods andservices, including the decision processes that precede and determine these acts. The underlying concepts of this chapter form a system in which the individual consumer is the core, surrounded by an immediate and a wider environment that influences his or her goals. These goals are ultimately satisfied by passing through a number of problem-solving stages leading to purchase decisions. The study and practice of marketing draws on a great many sources that contribute theory, information, inspiration and advice. In the past, the main input to the theory of consumer behaviour has come from psychology. More recently, the interdisciplinary importance of consumer behaviour has increased such that sociology, anthropology, economics and mathematics also contribute to the science relating to this subject.MotivationA person has many needs at any given time. Some needs are biogenic; they arise from physiological states of tension such as hunger, thirst, discomfort. Other needs are psychogenic; they arise from psychological states of tension such as the need for recognition, esteem, or belonging. A need becomes a motive when it is aroused to a sufficient level of intensity. A motive is a need that is sufficiently pressing to drive the person to act.Purchasing motivation is to make consumers to buy a commodity decision-making internal driving force, is a cause of purchase behavior ofthe premise, also is the cause of her behavior. Specific include the following aspects:(1) Rational motivationRational motivation some goods to consumers is a clear understanding and cognitive, of the goods in more familiar conducted based on the rational choice and make the purchase behavior. It includes:1. ApplyApply for a realistic performance psychological, consumer products is important to the most basic, most core functions. In the choose and buy goods, pay close attention to its technical performance, and appearance, the price, the brand of the added value of products on the second.2. The economyEconomic performance as a cream for psychological. By the comparison of several kinds of goods, in other conditions basic similar circumstances, this kind of customer to price appear quite sensitive, they are generally by price material benefit as the first element of choice.3. ReliableHigh quality product is the customer can rest assured the basis of consumption. Reliable is in essence a pursuit of high quality consumer reflect. So the brand name products has the trust of the people, just because it is reliable in quality.(2) feeling motivationFeeling motivation can't simply understand for not rational motivation. It is mainly composed of social and psychological factors arise willingness to buy and impulse. It is difficult to have a feeling motivation objective standard, but is substantially from the psychology.1. To show off psychologyThis kind of psychological in high income levels, more common. Income that they have the capital to show off, so in shopping on they will show their status and appreciate level. Many luxury brand manufacturers is seize the group psychological tendency, have introduced all kinds of expensive luxury goods.2. Compare psychologyComparison is a kind of psychological mutatis mutandis. In the same social groups inside, each member lists each other, who don't want to lag behind others. This kind of psychological on consumption appears to be a motive, others have what high-grade goods, own also must have.3. Conformity psychologyThis kind of psychological reflected in life circle, people want to follow in the circle the pace of most people. So that others think good products, own also followed approval; Others what to buy goods, oneself also can follow to buy.Psychologists have developed theories of human motivation. Three of the best known — the theories of Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow,and Frederick Herzberg— carry quite different implications for consumer analysis and marketing strategy. Freud’s theory. Sigmund Freud assumed that the psychological forces shaping people’s behavior are largely unconscious, and that a person cannot fully understand his or her own mo tivations. A technique called laddering can be used to trace a person’s motivations from the stated instrumental ones to the more terminal ones. Then the marketer can decide at what level to develop the message and appeal. In line with Freud’s theory, cons umers react not only to the stated capabilities of specific brands, but also to other, less conscious cues. Successful marketers are therefore mindful that shape, size, weight, material, color, and brand name can all trigger certain associations and emotions.Maslow’s theory. Abraham Maslow sought to explain why people are driven by particular needs at particular times. His theory is that human needs are arranged in a hierarchy, from the most to the least pressing. In order of importance, these five categories are physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization needs. A consumer will try to satisfy the most important need first; when that need is satisfied, the person will try to satisfy the next-most-pressing need. Maslow’s theory helps market ers understand how various products fit into the plans, goals, and lives of consumers.Herzberg’s theory. Frederick Herzberg developed a two -factortheory that distinguishes dissatisfiers (factors that cause dissatisfaction) from satisfiers (factors that cause satisfaction).the absence of dissatisfiers is not enough; satisfiers must be actively present to motivate a purchase. For example, a computer that comes without a warranty would be a dissatisfy. Y et the presence of a product warranty would not act as a satisfier or motivator of a purchase, because it is not a source of intrinsic satisfaction with the computer. Ease of use would, however, be a satisfier for a computer buyer. In line with this theory, marketers should avoid dissatisfiers that might unseal their products. They should also identify and supply the major satisfiers or motivators of purchase, because these satisfiers determine which brand consumers will buy.PerceptionA motivated person is ready to act, yet how that person actually acts is influenced by his or her perception of the situation. Perception is the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture of the world. Perception depends not only on physical stimuli, but al so on the stimuli’s relation to the surrounding field and on conditions within the individual.The key word is individual. Individuals can have different perceptions of the same object because of three perceptual processes: selective attention, selective distortion, and selective retention.Selective attention. People are exposed to many daily stimuli such asads; most of these stimuli are screened out— a process called selective attention. The end result is that marketers have to work hard to attract consu mers’ attention. Through research, marketers have learned that people are more likely to notice stimuli that relate to a current need, which is why car shoppers notice car ads but not appliance ads. Furthermore, people are more likely to notice stimuli that they anticipate —such as foods being promoted on a food Web site. And people are more likely to notice stimuli whose deviations are large in relation to the normal size of the stimuli, such as a banner ad offering $100 (not just $5) off a product’s list price.Selectively reserved. People forget much about what they have learned, but tend to retain information to support their attitudes and beliefs. Because of selective retention, we are all likely to remember information that is good and that we like about this product. We will forget to mention the advantages of the competitive products mentioned in the product. Selecting reservations explains why merchants use drama and repetition to convey information to the target audience.Consumer learning.When people do things, they will learn first. Learning involves personal behavioral changes. This is personal experience. The vast majority of human behavior is learning. Scientists believe that learning is driven by interactions, stimuli, clues, reactions, and reinforcement. Adriver is a strong internal stimulus that promotes action. Slightly stimulating the club is deciding when, where, and how a person responds. Let's say you buy an IBM computer. If your experience is worth it, your reaction to computers and IBM will be reinforced. Later, when you want to buy a printer, you can assume that because IBM computers do a good job, their printers should do well. The experience you have now extends to your similar stimulation to the outside world. An anti-universal discrimination ability, people learn to identify a set of similar stimulus differences and adjust the corresponding response. Using the learned theory, businesses can establish a certain amount of product demand, take a strong drive, use incentive signals, and provide positive reinforcement.Faith and attitudeThrough doing and learning, people gain beliefs and attitudes, which in turn affect their purchasing behavior. Belief is to describe a person having mastered something. Beliefs may be based on knowledge, opinions, or trust. They may or may not have emotional changes. Of course, manufacturers are very interested in people's beliefs, which are related to the products and services they provide. These beliefs constitute the concept of product and brand image, and their own idol of people's behavior. If some beliefs are wrong, consumers will curb purchases. Manufacturers hope to correct these beliefs by organizing an activity. The fact that is especially important for global manufacturers is that buyersoften hold different beliefs about whether they are brands or products, which is mainly based on the cultural origin of a country. Research found that, for example, the type of product changes with the place of production. Consumers want to know where these cars are produced rather than where they come from. In addition, the attitude of origin may change over time; for example, in Japan, the quality of its cars before the Second World War was very poor.A company has a number of options when its origin of the product changes to consumers. Companies can consider cooperating with foreign companies, and even get a better name. Another alternative is to hire a famous celebrity endorsement product. Or the company can continue to produce at the local factory but when a new strategy is adopted, the products produced have high quality to achieve world-class quality. This choice is true, such as Belgian chocolate and Colombian coffee. This is where South African wine merchants are trying to do the same and imitate them in order to increase their wine exports. The previous image of South African wines was not good, because in people's perception, their vineyard cultivation was primitive compared to other countries, and the grape-growing peasants continued to perform rough labor. In fact, the lives of South African wine farmers have improved their workers. “Wine is the origin of a product and we cannot succeed if South Africa does not look good,” said William Babb, an agricultural cooperative thatdominates the industry. Attitudes and beliefs are as important as they affect people's buying behavior. This kind of attitude is a person's lasting favorable and unfavorable evaluation, emotional feeling, which is a tendency towards something or ideas and actions. People almost have their own attitude toward everything: religion, politics, clothes, music, food. Attitudes put them in a frame where the mind likes or dislikes an object, moves toward or away from it.Attitudes lead people to perform fairly steadily toward similar goals. Because of the ideological attitude of saving energy, they are very difficult to change. Changing a single attitude may require major adjustments in other attitudes.Therefore, a company should be recommended to produce products that fit the company's existing attitude rather than trying to change people's attitudes. Of course, attempts to change attitudes occasionally succeed. Look at the milk industry. By the early 1990s, milk consumption had fallen for 25 years, because the general understanding was that milk was unhealthy, outdated, only for children, and then the National Fluid Milk Processor Education Program triggered millions of dollars in printed advertisements showing milk , V ery popular activities have changed attitudes, and in the process, milk consumption has rapidly increased. Milk producers have also established an online milk club, members promise daily and three glasses of milk.中文译文心理因素影响购买行为作者：Geoff Lancaster心理因素是第四重要影响消费者的购买行为(除了文化、社会和个人因素) 。
