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Amen,brother.
See, for starters, the seminal work "The Hidden Persuaders" by Vance Packard.
and/or
"Four Reasons for Turning Off your TV"
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Dennis Taylor [mailto:ismgr_at_pctc.com]
|| Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:42 AM
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| Subject: RE: Windows vs. UNIX
||
||
|| At 03:55 AM 5/1/01 -0800, you wrote:
|| >If you are taking social psychology as well, maybe you can
|| write a paper to
|| >explain why marketing tactics actually work, I never
|| understood that one.
|| >
||
|| You are making the mistake of assuming that we are primarily thinking
|| beings. In fact, our intelligence is just a thin veneer on
|| top of a whole
|| lotta animal. Advertising plays to our emotions, our
|| insecurities, our
|| greed, etc. It bypasses your intelligence entirely, and it's
|| generally
|| effective unless you consciously realize you're being handled.
||
|| There are all kinds of sales and marketing tactics, such as
|| barrier sales
|| and consistency leading that are simply empirically known to work.
||
||
|| Dennis Taylor
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|| The only reason I'm not paranoid is to keep those
|| plotting against me off-guard.
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