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Consumers are helping to prioritise research

BMJ, 2001
EDITOR—We welcome the increasing participation of consumers in designing, conducting, and interpreting the results of randomised controlled trials.1 At the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment we also recognise the importance of asking consumers to help decide which trials are needed. The health technology assessment programme
J, Royle, S, Oliver
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Qualitative Research: A Consumer's Guide

Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice, 2000
Qualitative research is best characterized as a family of approaches whose goal is understanding the lived experience of persons who share time, space and culture. Although they are often judged as a single entity, the approaches actually vary in their theoretical assumptions and canons of evidence.
R M, Frankel, K, Devers
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A Tutorial in Consumer Research: Process Theorization in Cultural Consumer Research

Journal of Consumer Research, 2016
How do researchers studying the cultural aspects of consumption theorize change? We propose four analytical workbench modes of process theorization in combination with nine genres of process-oriented consumer research, each presenting a distinctive combination of assumptions about the nature of change in market and consumption systems and consumers ...
Markus Giesler, Craig J. Thompson
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Consumer Energy Research: A Review

Journal of Consumer Research, 1981
T he social significance of consumer energy research can be established by observing the importance of consumer energy conservation in the quest for long-run energy security, and by recognizing the role of consumer research in the identification of effective conservation initiatives.
Gordon H. G. McDougall, John D. Claxton, J. R. Brent Ritchie, C. Dennis Anderson   +3 more
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Probiotics: from research to consumer

Digestive and Liver Disease, 2006
Intestinal microflora has metabolic, trophic and protective functions, and can be modified in pathological conditions and by the exogenous administration of probiotics. Probiotics are defined as living microorganisms which resist gastric, bile, and pancreatic secretions, attach to epithelial cells and colonize the human intestine.
M, Del Piano, L, Morelli, G P, Strozzi, S, Allesina, M, Barba, F, Deidda, P, Lorenzini, M, Ballaré, F, Montino, M, Orsello, M, Sartori, E, Garello, S, Carmagnola, M, Pagliarulo, L, Capurso   +14 more
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Environmental Variables in Consumer Research

Journal of Consumer Research, 1976
Russell Belk's explicit recognition of environmental variables and their ability to explain and predict behavior is applauded. His approach to describing environmental differences is noted as lacking parsimony, however, and an alternative, more parsimonious, approach is suggested.
Russell, James A, Mehrabian, Albert
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Discovery-Oriented Consumer Research

Journal of Consumer Research, 1993
The Journal of Consumer Research and the Association for Consumer Research initiated a new discipline, intended to embrace divergent topics, methods, concepts, data, motives, partners, and ideas. Over the years, that vision has faded. Now the discipline faces inward, toward a narrower range of issues, and away from the real world.
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Consumer Researchers: Take A Hike!

Journal of Consumer Research, 2000
Consumer research needs broader intellectual peripheral vision. This requires learning to see relevance in seemingly distant fields and taking ignorance as a friend. A particularly challenging but highly relevant topic concerns the (un)conscious mind and the essential unity of body, brain, mind, and society.
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Is Polio a Model for Consumer Research?

Nature, 1973
Dr Wyatt considers to what extent the customer-contractor principle was at work in research on poliomyelitis.
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Content Analysis in Consumer Research

Journal of Consumer Research, 1977
The use of documentary evidence such as historical records, novels, existing advertisements, and photographs has been little used in consumer research. This paper presents an exposition of content analysis methodology and, tangentially, reviews the existing studies in consumer behavior using this rich approach.
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