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Selling Products With Sexism
Posted on March 11, 2011
Sexist products and advertising were once right out in the open. Take this old advertisement from Honor House Products Corp. for “Stuffed” Girl’s Heads (highlighted this week over at Dangerous Minds). A 1970 advertisement for Mr. Leggs slacks (shown below) played into the same notions of women as passive “conquests” and men as active “conquerors.” […]
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2013 PLMS Conference – Save the Date!
Posted on April 6, 2013
On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. For more information, visit the conference website here. Here’s a draft of the day’s schedule. Tentative Schedule 9:30 am – Coffee, tea, […]
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New Book: Drunk Tank Pink
Posted on March 17, 2013
Here at The Situationist, we are always excited to learn about new books bringing insights from the mind sciences to broader audiences, but we are particularly excited when the book in question happens to be written by one of our friends. And when the author has a great name (more on that later), all the […]
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The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain
Posted on February 3, 2013
This post (authored by Adam Benforado) was originally published on February 4, 2007. As I stake out my position on the couch this evening – close enough to reach the pretzels and my beer, but with an optimal view of the TV – it will be nice to imagine that the spectacle about to unfold […]
Posted in Emotions, Entertainment, Food and Drug Law, Implicit Associations, Life, Marketing, Situationist Sports | 1 Comment »
The Situation of Perceived Time
Posted on June 21, 2012
Melanie Rudd, Kathleen Vohs, and Jennifer Lynn Aaker recently posted their latest paper, “Awe Expands People’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being” (forthcoming Psychological Science) on SSRN. For those of you who have time to read it, here is the abstract. When do people feel as if they are rich in time? […]
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The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain
Posted on February 5, 2012
This post was originally published on February 4, 2007. As I stake out my position on the couch this evening – close enough to reach the pretzels and my beer, but with an optimal view of the TV – it will be nice to imagine that the spectacle about to unfold is a sporting event.It […]
Posted in Emotions, Entertainment, Food and Drug Law, Implicit Associations, Life, Marketing, Situationist Sports | 4 Comments »
Miss Representation – Premieres Tonight on OWN
Posted on October 20, 2011
The documentary explores how the media’s misrepresentation of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. It will premiere in the US tonight at 9pm ET. Related Situationist posts: Sarah Haskins on “Ladyfriend” Stereotypes, Selling Products With Sexism, Hey Dove! Talk to YOUR parent!, Hillary Clinton, the Halo Effect, and Women’s Catch-22, […]
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The Marketing Situation of Doritos (FTC Complaint)
Posted on October 19, 2011
NPLAN filed a complaint today with the FTC today alleging that Frito-Lay has engaged in deceptive marketing to teens by disguising Doritos ads as entertainment; by collecting and using kids’ personal information in violation of its own privacy policy and without adequate disclosure about the extent and purpose of the data collection; and by engaging […]
Posted in Choice Myth, Deep Capture, Emotions, Entertainment, Food and Drug Law, Marketing, Video | 2 Comments »
Bad Apologies
Posted on September 16, 2011
Topman has withdrawn the t-shirt pictured above (and another that suggested that women are dogs). The shirt is intended to be humorous. It would appear that Topman is attempting to point out how apologies offered by batterers to their victims are often disingenuous. By adumbrating the standard set of meaningless apologies on a handy checklist to […]
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McDonald’s Favorite Man: Don Gorske
Posted on May 19, 2011
May 17th is an important day for Ronald. You see, each year it marks the anniversary of when one Fond du Lac, Wisconsin man decided to start eating Big Macs. Since 1972, that man, Don Gorske, has eaten 25,000 of McDonald’s famous burgers — typically two a day — becoming, as I and other Situationist […]
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The Neuro-Situation of Shopping Choices
Posted on May 16, 2011
From ScienceDaily: Researchers at Oxford University are to study ‘neuromarketing’, a relatively new field of consumer and market research, which uses brain imaging and measurement technology to study the neural processes underlying an individual’s choice. Neuromarketing claims to reveal how consumers assess, deliberate and choose in a variety of contexts. According to neuromarketers this growing […]
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Blog to Be Renamed! Meet the Situationist 24
Posted on April 28, 2011
After coming across a reference on the Harvard Business Review site to new research by Dan King and Chris Janiszewski, I immediately contacted the Grand Executive Steering, Directing, and Pointing Committee of the Situationist. An emergency meeting was held last evening and the Committee has an announcement: effective immediately, the blog is being renamed “The […]
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Body Image and Materialism
Posted on April 7, 2011
From PsychOrg: Psychological research has consistently shown that women feel unhappy with their body after looking at images of thin, idealized models, which are typically represented in the media. However, today’s consumer culture and media promote not only the ideal of perfect beauty, but also that of the material affluent lifestyle, both of which are […]
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Table of Contents
Posted on March 9, 2011
Psychology and Marketing, Volume 28, Issue 3 (March 2011) Copyright © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company Research Articles The role of touch in marketing: An introduction to the special issue, Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd: Guest Editor Autotelic need for touch, haptics, and persuasion: The role of involvement, Joann Peck, Jennifer Wiggins Johnson The impact […]
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Blogroll Review – Part 2
Posted on February 7, 2011
Over at the new Law & Mind Blog, a group of Harvard Law students is writing a series of posts reviewing other mind-science blogs. Each post provides a summary of several blogs and features one that the author finds especially valuable. Here’s Part 2 of that series (authored by second-year student Jeremy Troxel). * * […]
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Situationism in the Blogosphere – December
Posted on January 27, 2011
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during December 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From BPS Research Digest: “Do political scandals really distract us from important issues?” “Barely a day goes by without some political scandal or other splashed […]
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