Consumer Experiences and Emotion Management

The purpose of emotion management is to build brand and create a sustainable competitive advantage. Emotions can organize cognitive processes or disorganize them, be active or passive, lead to adaptation, or be maladaptive. Consumers may be conscious of their emotions or may be motivated by unconscious emotions. The primary emotions like joy, fear and anger individually or in combined form with different intensities have an adaptive significance in a consumers life. Therefore the purpose of this book is to emphasizes the value of emotions and explore mental behavioral and emotional dimensions that affect consumers of all age groups, societies and cultures. This books approach provides an integrated view of the different perspectives of consumer emotions. The book examines the different elements of emotion, evidence of how emotions govern and organize consumer life, and emotion and individual functioning, including consumer psychological experiences through facial expressions, inner feelings and feedback. The book provides an ability to understand and appreciate the power of emotions and consumer experiences in marketing and develop an understanding of issues of emotions and conscience in the area of marketing and how marketing can both help and hinder our realization of better living and working conditions.