Studies show that reactions to (marketing) stimuli often correlate much stronger with the psychography of the target persons - above all their attitudes, motivations and subjective perception of reality - rather than demographic characteristics.
The objective of consumer segmentation would therefore be to develop a selective consumer typology,
Psyma and Schober have together developed a procedure with which the response-relevant attitude attributes and motives of action can be assigned to target group address data and taken into consideration in address selection for direct marketing.
Examples of representable typologies: car buyers, cellphone users, energy consumers, tourism, clothing, etc.
