Consumer Science

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    • Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics
    • By: Melina Palmer
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • This audiobook explains why people buy - and how to use that knowledge to improve pricing, increase sales, and create better, "brain-friendly" brand messaging. Become a more effective leader with the practical tools in this book....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • The Science Behind Why We Buy
    • By: Phil P. Barden
    • Narrated by: Graham Mack
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • If you understand why people buy, you are already one step ahead in reaching out to them effectively with your products and services. Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy offers a groundbreaking exploration into the science of purchasing....

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    • What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
    • By: Gad Saad, David M. Buss - foreword
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • For anyone interested in the biological basis of human behavior or simply in what makes consumers tick-marketing professionals, advertisers, psychology mavens, and consumers themselves - this is a fascinating listen....

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    • Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal
    • By: David Hoffeld
    • Narrated by: David Hoffeld
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • The revolutionary sales approach scientifically proven to dramatically improve your sales and business success....

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    • How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change
    • By: Tanja Hester
    • Narrated by: Tanja Hester
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Wallet Activism challenges you to rethink your financial power so can feel confident spending, earning, and saving money in ways that align with your values....

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    • The Science of Smarter Spending
    • By: Elizabeth Dunn, Michael Norton
    • Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness....

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    • By: Daniel Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gilbert
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,465 ratings
    • A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy–and what we can do about it....

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    • How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
    • By: Michael Saylor
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it....

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    • How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
    • By: J.B. MacKinnon
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet - but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping....

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    • Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
    • By: Don Norman
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design....

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    • Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Human Side of Economics
    • By: David Orrell
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Series: Hot Science Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational individuals who optimize our own “utility”. Then, in the 1970s, psychologists demonstrated that the reality is a lot messier....

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    • From Factory to Front Door - Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
    • By: Christopher Mims
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. Mims asks us to consider the system’s vulnerability and its resilience....

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    • How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
    • By: Robert J. Shiller
    • Narrated by: Susan Osman, Robert J. Shiller - introduction
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 450 ratings
    • The stories people tell - about economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American dream, or Bitcoin - affect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains how we can begin to take these stories seriously. It may be Robert Shiller's most important book to date....

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    • The Science of Shopping
    • By: Paco Underhill
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 05-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty, best-selling book on our ever-evolving consumer culture....

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    • The New Science of Skin
    • By: James Hamblin
    • Narrated by: Barrett Leddy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 415 ratings
    • The things we do every day to keep ourselves clean can have surprising and unintended effects, as this entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics reveals....

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    • Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation
    • By: Sally Hogshead
    • Narrated by: Sally Hogshead
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 773 ratings
    • What triggers fascination, and how do companies, people, and ideas put those triggers to use? Find out....

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    • Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Columbia Global Reports)
    • By: Tim Wu
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • From the man who coined the term "net neutrality", author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants, comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future....

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    • The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
    • By: Tim Wu
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 725 ratings
    • From Tim Wu comes a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting", and its transformative effect on our society and our selves....

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    • The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
    • By: Dan Ariely
    • Narrated by: Simon Jones
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667 ratings
    • Dan Ariely exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives....

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