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Hynopsis-derived techniques in market research

The authors present a new technique for conducting motivational research - known as "Relaxation Technique" (R.T.) - the theoretic assumptions of which are based on research into hypnosis and the states of consciousness it induces. After specifying...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Authors: Pranco Barbero, Graziella Messina

June 15, 1984

New directions for innovation in products and services

With my European colleagues in RISC, we conducted in 1981-1983 the initial cycle of an ongoing program called "Anticipating Change in Europe" (ACE). In this program, we have compared all the information available to us on change in society and among...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Author: Alain de Vulpian

Company: RISC S.A.

June 15, 1984

Recent developments in computer applications for market research

In this paper we discuss some recent and possibly unique developments in the application of computer technology to market research data collection and analysis. We describe the development of three systems which utilise local area networks of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Authors: Matthew Holder, Douglas J. Johnson

June 15, 1984

Relevance of young people's environmental attitudes to future transportation developments

In this paper we are concerned with the development of a market - the passenger car section - that is to be described as narrow, for it is on the threshold of maturation, and this means a special challenge for market research and marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Marketing To Children And Young Consumer

Authors: Gerhard Mattrisch, E. P. W. Minx

June 15, 1984

Price sensitivity, does it increase during a recession?

In this paper, the authors describe a method which has been tested over many years. It offers a means for testing the sales effect of price decisions before the new price has been released on the market. Thus marketing companies can evaluate pricing...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Authors: Alain Pioche, Lynn Y.S. Lin, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1984

Processing the meaning of stimuli in the absence of stimulus-identification

Because perception is important in the field of advertising, some perceptual phenomena and theoretical insights are discussed, since several misconceptions, mysticisms and controversies seem to exist with regard to 'subliminal perception' and the...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Author: Mark J. A. Zoon

June 15, 1984

Improving the effectiveness of our media planning

The everyday activity of a media planner consists in organizing systems or combinations of means of transportation for the advertising messages toward the targets. In most other fields, such a system is considered as a good one when it : is cost...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Media Research- Does It Really Affect Media Planning?

Author: Giovanni Fabris

June 15, 1984

Interactive access to on-line survey data-bases

New techniques for processing survey data are dramatically changing the way that research is carried out, moving the emphasis from data-collection to data-analysis. The computer terminal is playing an increasingly important role, and I firmly believe...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Are Interviewers Obsolete?

Author: Mark Katz

June 15, 1984

Getting it done

This paper describes a system that I have been developing within the MRB International Group of companies: a system designed to overcome some of the problems associated with co-ordinating/quality-controlling qualitative research in multi-country...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Mary Goodyear

June 15, 1984