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Neuromarketing and entertainment: Why our brains like stories

September 27, 2015 0 Comments
Neuromarketing and entertainment: Why our brains like stories

Research has shown that a story can activate empathy. Through a system in the brain called mirror neurons, we can feel what characters in the story feel. As the story draws us in, our emotions are connected to the story, suppressing our awareness of our actual surroundings. This causes us to leave reality and enjoy […]

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Brain science, the Internet, and (almost) limitless gratification

September 13, 2015 0 Comments
Brain science, the Internet, and (almost) limitless gratification

The Internet raises some interesting issues with regard to how it enables us to satisfy some of our most basic human needs in ways that were impossible before it came along. Three such changes are discussed in Chapter 13 (“When Consumers’ Brains Go Online”): How we search for information Just about everything we do online […]

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