This special issue showcases research that demonstrates the usefulness of neuroscientific approaches to a range of marketing-related questions.
The past decade has yielded extraordinary advances in understanding of how brain processes produce human behavior. These advances have fueled a steady growth in the application of neuroscientific methods to generate both theoretical and practical insights into consumer behavior and marketing.
They have been especially fruitful in illuminating consumers’ decision processes across multiple marketing-related domains, particularly those underlying valuation and choice (for recent reviews, see Smidts et al. 2014; Yoon et al. 2012).
Because these developments have been published primarily in neuroscience journals, marketing scholars and practitioners may not be fully aware of the range of problems and questions that neuroscientific methods can address. This special issue aims to bring Journal of Marketing Research readers up to date on what neuroscience has done, and can do, to inform marketing.