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  3. Some consumer researchers distinguish between "rational" motives and" emotional" motives. They use the term" rationality" in the

Some consumer researchers distinguish between "rational" motives and" emotional" motives. They use the term" rationality" in the

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问题     Some consumer researchers distinguish between "rational" motives and" emotional" motives. They use the term" rationality" in the traditional economic sense that assume that consumers behave rationally when they carefully consider all alternatives and choose those that give them the greatest utility (i.e. satisfaction) in a marketed context. The tern "rationality" implies that the consumer selects goods based on totally objective criteria, such as size, weight, price, and so on. "Emotional" motives imply the selection of goods according to impersonal or subjective criteria—the desire for individuality, pride, fear, affection or status.
    The assumption underlying this distinction is that subjective or emotional criteria do not maximize satisfaction; therefore, it is reasonable to assume that consumers always attempt to select alternatives that, in their view, serve to minimize satisfaction. Obviously, the assessment of satisfaction is a very personal process, based on the individual’s own needs as well as on past behavior, social, and learning experiences. What may appear as irrational to an outside observer may be perfect rational within the context of the consumer’s own psychological field. If behavior did not appear rational to the person who undertakes at the time that it is undertaken, obviously he or she would not do it. Therefore the distinction between rational and emotional motives does not appear to be warranted.
    Some researchers go so far as to suggest that emphasis of "needs" obscures the rational, or conscious, nature of most consumer motivation. They claim that consumers act consciously to maximize their gains and minimize their losses; that they act on not from subconscious drives but from rational preferences.
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答案minimize→maximize
解析 语义错误。从首段对rationality和emotional motive的解释可以看出消费者在购买商品时是追求最大满足的，但由于判断标准不同，造成的结果是不同的。因此可以判断，本题所在处的句子含义是：消费者总是尽力追求最大满足(虽然只是他们个人的观点)。因此这里将minimize改成maximize。
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