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Five intuitive marketing principles marketers can start using today

February 3, 2020 0 Comments
Five intuitive marketing principles marketers can start using today

In a recent article promoting my new book, Intuitive Marketing, I outlined some common mistakes marketers make when they try too hard to persuade consumers to buy their products and brands. That advice was necessarily negative—it described what not to do. Now I’d like to consider the opposite question: what are some positive ways marketers […]

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The Mere Exposure Effect is Not a Silver Bullet for Marketers

December 2, 2019 0 Comments
The Mere Exposure Effect is Not a Silver Bullet for Marketers

Robert Zajonc first published his findings about the mere exposure effect in 1968. In an article titled “Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure,” he described a series of experimental findings that fundamentally challenged the psychological understanding of preferences accepted at the time. According to that understanding, preferences were a result of conscious thinking. Cognitions were believed […]

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What Do Replication Failures Tell Us About Priming?

November 10, 2019 1 Comment
What Do Replication Failures Tell Us About Priming?

Despite extensive evidence for priming in general and behavior priming in particular, there has emerged in recent years a backlash against this research, based largely on the publication of a number of replication failures of highly-cited priming studies.[1] Some observers have suggested these results are symptomatic of a deeper replication crisis (sometimes called a reproducibility […]

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10 mistakes persuasive marketing makes (and intuitive marketing avoids)

September 21, 2019 1 Comment
10 mistakes persuasive marketing makes (and intuitive marketing avoids)

My book, Intuitive Marketing, challenges a fundamental assumption of traditional marketing—that the purpose of marketing (and advertising) is to persuade. I knew when I started this project in late 2014 that two things were true: First, marketing and advertising were starting to bug me. They were becoming more disruptive and intrusive every day and marketers […]

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From measures to metrics: A fresh look at automated facial coding

March 4, 2015 2 Comments
From measures to metrics: A fresh look at automated facial coding

Recently one of my favorite neuromarketing methodologies, automated facial coding (AFC), seems to have burst into the research mainstream. Within one week in January, Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder of Affectiva, was the recipient of a glowing profile in the New Yorker and Paul Ekman, undisputed guru of facial coding and scientific advisor to Emotient, received […]

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The Human Brand: Evolution, Neuromarketing and Cosmetics

January 26, 2015 0 Comments
The Human Brand: Evolution, Neuromarketing and Cosmetics

Copyright Daniel B. Yarosh, Ph.D. 2014. All Rights Reserved. Editor’s note: I had the pleasure of spending some time with Dan Yarosh when we were both speakers at a conference in Lima, Peru last November. Dan’s presentation was a big hit, and I recently discovered he had posted a version of it on his website at www.danyarosh.com. I asked […]

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Can Neuromarketing Get Its Groove Back? … Part 1

December 20, 2013 0 Comments
Can Neuromarketing Get Its Groove Back? … Part 1

Part 1. The Roots of Our Discontent This post was originally published in the GreenBook Blog on December 12, 2013. Reprinted by permission. Let’s face it, neuromarketing is in a bit of a funk. When I started in this field in 2006, many of us believed that within 10 years, at least 30% of all […]

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