This course explores how buyers make decisions and why those decisions are often shaped by emotion, context, mental shortcuts and perceived risk. Learners examine how decision-making psychology and behavioural economics can help explain hesitation, uncertainty and confidence during sales conversations.

Buyer Decision Making: Behaviour, Influence And Ethics

Buyer Decision Making: Behaviour, Influence And Ethics
This course is part of The Science Of Sales: Behavioural Insights And Psychology Specialization

Instructor: The Expert Academy
Access provided by National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
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What you'll learn
Analyse how cognitive bias and assumptions affect buyer decisions.
Apply decision-making and problem-solving techniques to sales situations.
Explain how behavioural economics principles influence buyer confidence and hesitation.
Use framing, anchoring and evidence to clarify value ethically.
Skills you'll gain
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Marketing Psychology
- Behavioral Economics
- Negotiation
- Trustworthiness
- Influencing
- Sales
- Decision Making
- Business Ethics
- Analysis
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Customer Analysis
- Consumer Behaviour
- General Sales Practices
- Problem Solving
- Overcoming Objections
- Stakeholder Communications
- Stakeholder Management
- Persuasive Communication
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