title: [Analyzing consumer preference by using the latest semantic model for verbal protocol].
abstract: This paper examines consumers' preferences for competing brands by using a preference model of verbal protocols. Participants were 150 university students, who reported their opinions and feelings about McDonalds and Mos Burger (competing hamburger restaurants in Japan). Their verbal protocols were analyzed by using the singular value decomposition method, and the latent decision frames were estimated. The verbal protocols having a large value in the decision frames could be interpreted as showing attributes that consumers emphasize. Based on the estimated decision frames, we predicted consumers' preferences using the logistic regression analysis method. The results indicate that the decision frames projected from the verbal protocol data explained consumers' preferences effectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Waseda University, Takemura.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamari
authors.forename: Kazuhisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takemura
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012660:Semantics