Includes bibliographical references and index.

This Handbook examines the area of consumer behaviour from the perspective of current developments and developing areas for the discipline, to new opportunities that comprehend the nature of consumer choice and its relationship to marketing. Consumer research incorporates perspectives from a spectrum of long-established sciences: psychology, economics and sociology. This Handbook strives to include this multitude of sources of thought adding geography, neuroscience, ethics and behavioural ecology, to this list. Encompassing scholars with a passion for researching consumers, this Handbook highlights important developments in consumer behaviour research including consumer culture, impulsivity and compulsiveness, ethics, behavioural ecology and examines evolutionary and neuroscience perspectives as well as consumer choice. Undergraduate and postgraduate students researchers in marketing with interests in consumer behaviour will find this enriching resource invaluable.