Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger

People were forced to experience 10h of mandated fasting or total social isolation. After isolation, people…

Old dog, new tricks: Age differences in dog personality traits, associations with human personality traits, and links to important outcomes

Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are often referred to as humans’ best friends. Like humans, not all…

Bias

Cognitive bias algorithms Availability cascade – repeat something over and over and it will come true.…

Walk away: who? & why?

2018 cart abandonment stats from Salecycle.

Walk away

In 2017, online consumers placed over $9 trillion on their shopping carts according to Forrester. Online…

Ignorance Is A Choice

Ignorance is a choice despite the ‘thirst for knowledge’ is a basic human instinct. People spend…

Freemium is Not Free

Jarid Lurkin coined the freemium term, a combination of the words free and premium. [1] The…

Don’t Push, Pull Me In

The old American Marketing Association (AMA) definition is of marketing is “a process for creating, communicating,…

Illusion of Choice

Neuromarketing is “the use of modern brain science to measure the impact of marketing and advertising…