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The logic I've heard is that people think less logically and are more impulsive when disoriented.
Some of the best paid jobs for psychologists are working for companies to devise surreptitious ways to make people buy more.
In advertising as well. I noticed quite an uptick in the 'annoyance' factor of tv and radio ads somewhere between 2005 and 2010. People were more likely to discuss bad ads, or ads with a quirk of some kind. Hate is an easier strong emotion to coerce with an ad so they fully went with it and somehow the negative attention equalled more sales.
It's hard to imagine some business exec coming up with this research, it's more likely a team of psychology majors who would rather earn more money than actually help people.
I've put several companies on my "never buy" solely based on their commercials. If I remember your ad, I'm likely to purposely not buy your product.
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.
HOW WAS I THINKING THIS EXACT SAME THING.
Ha! That's exactly what came to mind for me too.
This is more or less the case. Advertising psychology is a wildly lucrative field, if you're good at it. Turns out "I know how ppl think, I will unveil the mystique" and "you can make more money" is right at the intersection of $$$
I'm no psychologist but I've certainly avoided stores that made me uncomfortable because, well they made me uncomfortable
Same here. Or if I have no choice, I’ll have several instances of overwhelm where I freeze and process just enough to continue, get flustered, and just skip looking at anything at all I don’t need. Tunnel vision is a major cope. And even stuff I do need, and specifically came for, often gets left behind because I just can’t.
I wish I could get groceries delivered, but there aren’t any services in my area (close by, but I’d have to get them delivered to a delivery locker site for a huge fee, and at that point I may as well just do the shopping myself). That’s the biggest instance of this for me. I genuinely hate grocery shopping.