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The paradox of memory in market research

The results of modern psychology on various aspects of memory - recognition, retention and recall - are all of interest but of varied practical use to market researchers. The problem of respondent memory in market research is illustrated from...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Authors: Henry Durant, Martin Simmons

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1968

Comments on papers: Session I

Both the previous speakers have stressed the difference in approach between the policy markers' main advisor, the economist thinking in aggregate terms, and the marketing researcher in the commercial world, who is essentially concerned with problems...

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Market Research On Agriculture And Farmers

Author: G. Harrinston

May 1, 1968

Comments on mr. T. C. Lockwood's paper

I would like to comment on Mr. Lockwood's paper. I appreciate his attempt to base his paper upon published empirical evidence. It is not our purpose here to go through a detailed analysis of every statement made by Mr. Lockwood but I would like to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1967: The Market Research Looks At The Way That Advertising Works

Author: Jacques E. Andriessens

June 15, 1967

The relationship between researchers and creative people

This paper aims to examine in rather more detail the reasons for some of the unhappy relationships, and suggests five specific approaches which could make progress in eliminating the underlying causes. There seem to be three main areas of troubles :...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Stephen King

June 16, 1966

The relationship between research and the creative process

Making research play its part not only before and after the creative process, but during the process. Traditionally, research was used to make preliminary studies , then to make tests on the finished advertisement. With the approach which we propose,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Henri Joannis

June 1, 1966

The sentient ecosystem

This paper treats the marketing activity as a system which relates the producer and his market. Cyberneticians call this an ecosystem, a. word which is a contraction of the phrase ‘ecological system'. Ecology is that branch of biology which...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1964

Author: Stafford Beer

June 15, 1964

Aided recall

The examples given here: the Irish readership survey, the family Interview for consumer durables, the 7-day aided recall survey, the cigarette study, have a common philosophy. The techniques respect both the respondent and the interviewer. They...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: William Gregory

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1961

A new approach to the evaluation of advertising themes

In recent years considerable attention has been paid by marketing theorists to the role of advertising and other promotional activities within the marketing policy of the firm and to their optimal setting in the combined operation of the various...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Authors: H. Emanuel, Leonardus Hendrik Klaassen, H. Theil

June 15, 1960

Mytho-mathematosis in marketing decisions?

We think that the authors are not too satisfied with the horizons, opened by their approach, either. The practical conclusions they reach in the case of shipping companies versus airlines did not need the whole mathematical program machinery that has...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: Jan L. Wage

June 15, 1960