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The Mindful Shopper Learning From Fashion Trends
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 23:15:03 -0700
Are you a fashion trend watcher? Do you spend a lot of time flipping through magazines and analyzing the wardrobe choices of others? Do you buy trendy items only to despise them--and yourself--later? Trend-watching--and, more precisely, observing our trend-watching--gives us tremendous oppo...
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Understanding Impacts of Superstitions on Decision Making Behavior
posted on Sat, 03 May 2008 12:46:12 -0700
Scientists have been successful up to great extent in understanding the impacts of superstitious beliefs on the decision making process of a person. This important aspect has long been understood to affect the market behaviors in addition to the individual’s behavior but almost no attention has been given to it so far. For the first time the research conducted has brought up certain relevant findings which will also be published in the forthcoming April issue of the “Journal of Consumer Rese
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Advertising
posted on Thu, 01 May 2008 16:24:10 -0700
Advertising Although the primary objective of commercial advertising is to sell goods and services, this is accomplished in a complex manner. Social theorists directly or indirectly influenced by Karl Marx usually say that advertising creates a false or illusory relationship between the consumer and the producer. Freudian-based sociological analyses suggest that when buying, the consumer enters into a fantasy relationship with a corporate producer. The producer substitutes for a lost or desi
Mission Accomplished - "Sorry you misunderstood?" vs "Sorry, you misunderstood"
posted on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:25:46 -0700
Today is the five-year anniversary of President Bush II landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln, standing in front of a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" and said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." Anybody remember that? Well, NPR (White House Clarifies 'Mission Accomplished' Sign) and others remembered it. Evidently the banner was meant as a congratulations to the Lincoln's crew rather than a statement a
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Ban on Gifts for Medical Students
posted on Thu, 01 May 2008 06:10:50 -0700
If this trend continues, it promises to be good news: Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded…. Drug companies spend billions of dollars wooing doctors — more than they spend on research or consumer advertising. Medical schools, packed with prominent professors and impressionable trainees, are
Who Gets the News on Therapy Out?
posted on Thu, 01 May 2008 06:09:49 -0700
Art of promotion. From PsychCentral, the discrepancy between promoting drugs and promoting good talk therapy: This is a problem I’ve long noted — that every time a drug gets released or new research is published about it, the drug company makes sure you and everyone else knows about it. Through press releases, news brief, and numerous other strategies, drug companies’ profits depend on you getting the news. No such incentive is in place for any type of effective psychotherapy, like cognitive
BBC: "US Consumers pessimistic, but haven't stopped spending"
posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:02:43 -0700
In the BBC business article today, US shoppers' gloom at 2003 level again we see that the economic downturn has not necessarily produced an anti-spending mood — just a mood that is careful about how to spend. Here are two interesting quotes from the article: Consumer confidence in the US fell to a fresh five-year low in April, according to the latest survey from the Conference Board. "Spending certainly isn't tumbling as you would expect, given this quite depressed consumer confidence and the
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posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:37:28 -0700
What is Science Many people often confuse what science really means and what it can know. Here are a few aspects about science that are often unknown by the average person. 1. Science is falsifiable; it can always be changed based on the evidence. 2. Science cannot claim to know anything in any absolute way; it creates a statistical probability that something is true based on current experiences and test results. 3. Is the best current method for objective examination. 4. It provides exp
What is Science
posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:35:20 -0700
Many people often confuse what science really means and what it can know. Here are a few aspects about science that are often unknown by the average person. 1. Science is falsifiable; it can always be changed based on the evidence. 2. Science cannot claim to know anything in any absolute way; it creates a statistical probability that something is true based on current experiences and test results. 3. Is the best current method for objective examination. 4. It provides explanations without
Consumer Psychology
posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:53:05 -0700
Is Psychology a Science? Many people actually wonder if psychology is really a science. I have heard many reasons about why psychology is not really a science. Here are a few: 1. Psychology is just about guessing and making assumptions. 2. Psychology is based on individuals and all individuals are different so how can it tell us anything? 3. Psychology cannot know what a person is really thinking. 4. Psychology is a new age field based on weird interpretations and ideas. Psychology
I've been throttled.
posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:26:51 -0700
I've been throttled. After years of being a Netflix member who rented what I'd estimate to be one DVD every two months, I recently started becoming a more active member. For the past three months or so, I'd been pushing my two-DVDs-at-a-time plan to the limit, probably cycling through 1.5 DVDs per week (my husband and I are catching up on the brilliant but not a little bit sexist "Rescue Me"). When I first started cranking out the rentals, I was astonished at how quickly they came. It was es
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