I don’t know why of all the Cognitive Biases on offer I like this one the best. The Negativity Bias Did you know we have 6 primary emotions: Fear, disgust, anger, sadness, surprise, and joy. Perhaps the most striking thing about this list of our primary emotions is that only one is a positive [...]
Read more...Billions of dollars are spent each year by marketers in efforts to change consumer behavior. These are often direct and overt, such as persuading consumers to consume a product over that of a competitor. Even indirect attempts, such as campaigns aimed at creating brand image and raising awareness, ultimately have the end goal of changing [...]
Read more...Below is the write up of the psycho-marketing experiment we conducted at Mumbrella360, as it appeared on Mumbrella. There is also a link to it in The Australian, and on The Punch with some interesting comments. For those of you who missed it, we teamed up with Save the Children and Deakin University to run [...]
Read more...James O’Loghlin has a show on ABC radio ‘Sundays with James’. Once a month I go onto his show and talk about consumer psychology. It’s a fun 30 minute chat. If anyone has any suggestions on things within the world of consumer psychology that could be interesting to talk about on radio I’d love to [...]
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