Consumer Behavior, 5 edition

Wayne D. Hoyer holds the James L. Bayless/William S. Farish Fund Chair for Free Enterprise and is Chairman of the Department of Marketing. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. from Purdue University. His major area of study is consumer psychology and his research interests include consumer information processing and decision making, customer relationship management and new product development, and advertising information processing (including miscomprehension, humor, and brand personality). Dr. Hoyer has published over 100 articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, and other marketing and psychology forums. His 1998 article on assortment perceptions (with Susan Broniarczyk and Leigh McAlister) won the 2003 O'Dell Award from the American Marketing Association.

Deborah J. MacInnis is the Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 and holds a B.S. degree in psychology from Smith College. Dr. MacInnis has published papers in various journals; is a member of the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Market Focused Management; and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Advertising and the Journal of Consumer Psychology. She is a past recipient of the Alpha Kappa Psi award, an honor awarded to the best paper published in the Journal of Marketing. She has also worked as a consultant to several major advertisers and advertising agencies, and she is currently President of the Association for Consumer Research.