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    Default I have figured out the Bush loyalists

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromarketing

    This brand new marketing strategy emerged at the same time as the lead up to the Iraq war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desh View Post
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromarketing

    This brand new marketing strategy emerged at the same time as the lead up to the Iraq war.

    What else can I say...oh yeah stuff it Ms.Pink'!

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    http://tinyurl.com/3dsurs


    Congress was requested to look into it in 2004 because of the dangers of it


    For Immediate Release: July 12th, 2004

    Commercial Alert Asks Senate Commerce Committee to Investigate Neuromarketing
    Commercial Alert sent letters today to members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, requesting an investigation of neuromarketing, the prospect of more potent advertising and its implications for politics and public health.

    Following is a copy of the letter to Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.

    Dear Chairman McCain:

    What would happen in this country if corporate marketers and political consultants could literally peer inside our brains, and chart the neural activity that leads to our selections in the supermarket and the voting booth? What if they then could trigger this neural activity by various means, so as to modify our behavior to serve their own ends?

    We Americans may find out sooner than we think. Orwellian is not too strong a term for this prospect. Yet this research is happening right now, conducted by neuroscience and marketing professors affiliated with some of this nations most prestigious universities, such as Harvard, Baylor, CalTech, Penn State and Emory. They are using medical technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) not to heal the sick but rather to probe the human psyche for the purpose of influencing it.

    This new field is called “neuromarketing,” and those involved are near-euphoric in the possibilities for the marketing industry. It gives “unprecedented insight into the consumer mind,” enthuses Adam Koval, the former chief operating officer at the BrightHouse Institute for Thought Sciences. “And it will actually result in higher product sales or in getting customers to behave the way [corporations] want them to behave.”

    Let that quote linger in your mind. Then change the word “corporations” to “politicians” in the last clause and you begin to sense the implications. These may not be far off. Already CalTech neuroscientist Steven Quartz is using an fMRI to help movies studios figure out which movie trailers will attract the most filmgoers. (What if Michael Moore had that capacity?) Ford and DaimlerChrysler have conducted neuromarketing studies to help them understand why people buy cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desh View Post
    http://tinyurl.com/3dsurs


    Congress was requested to look into it in 2004 because of the dangers of it


    For Immediate Release: July 12th, 2004

    Commercial Alert Asks Senate Commerce Committee to Investigate Neuromarketing
    Commercial Alert sent letters today to members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, requesting an investigation of neuromarketing, the prospect of more potent advertising and its implications for politics and public health.

    Following is a copy of the letter to Senator John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.

    Dear Chairman McCain:

    What would happen in this country if corporate marketers and political consultants could literally peer inside our brains, and chart the neural activity that leads to our selections in the supermarket and the voting booth? What if they then could trigger this neural activity by various means, so as to modify our behavior to serve their own ends?

    We Americans may find out sooner than we think. Orwellian is not too strong a term for this prospect. Yet this research is happening right now, conducted by neuroscience and marketing professors affiliated with some of this nations most prestigious universities, such as Harvard, Baylor, CalTech, Penn State and Emory. They are using medical technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) not to heal the sick but rather to probe the human psyche for the purpose of influencing it.

    This new field is called “neuromarketing,” and those involved are near-euphoric in the possibilities for the marketing industry. It gives “unprecedented insight into the consumer mind,” enthuses Adam Koval, the former chief operating officer at the BrightHouse Institute for Thought Sciences. “And it will actually result in higher product sales or in getting customers to behave the way [corporations] want them to behave.”

    Let that quote linger in your mind. Then change the word “corporations” to “politicians” in the last clause and you begin to sense the implications. These may not be far off. Already CalTech neuroscientist Steven Quartz is using an fMRI to help movies studios figure out which movie trailers will attract the most filmgoers. (What if Michael Moore had that capacity?) Ford and DaimlerChrysler have conducted neuromarketing studies to help them understand why people buy cars.



    Sorry Missy..no trekkie here..this is the 21st century not 2525!...

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    Im not posting it for you.
    You are a brick wall and make a perfect target for these tactics

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desh View Post
    Im not posting it for you.
    You are a brick wall and make a perfect target for these tactics

    I am just a member of this board...address whomever you want...just specify...the screen name...or whatever...yes brick walls are hard to overcome...ya are one of them!

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    Oh please you arte so closed minded you cant even address the information I gave i this thread.

    It all fucking fact

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desh View Post
    Oh please you arte so closed minded you cant even address the information I gave i this thread.

    It all fucking fact

    Please elborate on the so called facts of this posting...all I saw was a letter addressed to John McCain! Never mind the F word is all the facts you need...my bad again!

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    For an ad campaign that started a revolution in marketing, the Pepsi Challenge TV spots of the 1970s and '80s were almost absurdly simple. Little more than a series of blind taste tests, these ads showed people being asked to choose between Pepsi and Coke without knowing which one they were consuming. Not surprisingly, given the sponsor, Pepsi was usually the winner.

    Mary Carmichael is a FRONTLINE web associate producer.


    But 30 years after the commercials debuted, neuroscientist Read Montague was still thinking about them. Something didn't make sense. If people preferred the taste of Pepsi, the drink should have dominated the market. It didn't. So in the summer of 2003, Montague gave himself a 'Pepsi Challenge' of a different sort: to figure out why people would buy a product they didn't particularly like.

    What he found was the first data from an entirely new field: neuromarketing, the study of the brain's responses to ads, brands, and the rest of the messages littering the cultural landscape. Montague had his subjects take the Pepsi Challenge while he watched their neural activity with a functional MRI machine, which tracks blood flow to different regions of the brain. Without knowing what they were drinking, about half of them said they preferred Pepsi. But once Montague told them which samples were Coke, three-fourths said that drink tasted better, and their brain activity changed too. Coke "lit up" the medial prefrontal cortex -- a part of the brain that controls higher thinking. Montague's hunch was that the brain was recalling images and ideas from commercials, and the brand was overriding the actual quality of the product. For years, in the face of failed brands and laughably bad ad campaigns, marketers had argued that they could influence consumers' choices. Now, there appeared to be solid neurological proof. Montague published his findings in the October 2004 issue of Neuron, and a cottage industry was born.

    Neuromarketing, in one form or another, is now one of the hottest new tools of its trade. At the most basic levels, companies are starting to sift through the piles of psychological literature that have been steadily growing since the 1990s' boom in brain-imaging technology. Surprisingly few businesses have kept tabs on the studies - until now. "Most marketers don't take a single class in psychology. A lot of the current communications projects we see are based on research from the '70s," says Justine Meaux, a scientist at Atlanta's BrightHouse Neurostrategies Group, one of the first and largest neurosciences consulting firms. "Especially in these early years, it's about teaching people the basics. What we end up doing is educating people about some false assumptions about how the brain works."

    Getting an update on research is one thing; for decades, marketers have relied on behavioral studies for guidance. But some companies are taking the practice several steps further, commissioning their own fMRI studies à la Montague's test. In a study of men's reactions to cars, Daimler-Chrysler has found that sportier models activate the brain's reward centers -- the same areas that light up in response to alcohol and drugs -- as well as activating the area in the brain that recognizes faces, which may explain people's tendency to anthropomorphize their cars. Steven Quartz, a scientist at Stanford University, is currently conducting similar research on movie trailers. And in the age of poll-taking and smear campaigns, political advertising is also getting in on the game. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have found that Republicans and Democrats react differently to campaign ads showing images of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. Those ads cause the part of the brain associated with fear to light up more vividly in Democrats than in Republicans.

    That last piece of research is particularly worrisome to anti-marketing activists, some of whom are already mobilizing against the nascent field of neuromarketing. Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a non-profit that argues for strict regulations on advertising, says that "a year ago almost nobody had heard of neuromarketing except for Forbes readers." Now, he says, it's everywhere, and over the past year he has waged a campaign against the practice, lobbying Congress and the American Psychological Association (APA) and threatening lawsuits against BrightHouse and other practitioners. Even though he admits the research is still "in the very preliminary stages," he says it could eventually lead to complete corporate manipulation of consumers -- or citizens, with governments using brain scans to create more effective propaganda.

    Ruskin might be consoled by the fact that many neuromarketers still don't know how to apply their findings. Increased activity in the brain doesn't necessarily mean increased preference for a product. And, says Meaux, no amount of neuromarketing research can transform otherwise rational people into consumption-driven zombies. "Of course we're all influenced by the messages around us," she says. "That doesn't take away free choice." As for Ruskin, she says tersely, "there is no grounds for what he is accusing." So far, the regulatory boards agree with her: the government has decided not to investigate BrightHouse and the APA's most recent ethics statement said nothing about neuromarketing. Says Ruskin: "It was a total defeat for us."

    With Commercial Alert's campaign thwarted for now, BrightHouse is moving forward. In January, the company plans to start publishing a neuroscience newsletter aimed at businesses. And although it "doesn't conduct fMRI studies except in the rarest of cases," it is getting ready to publish the results of a particularly tantalizing set of tests. While neuroscientist Montague's 'Pepsi Challenge' suggests that branding appears to make a difference in consumer preference, BrightHouse's research promises to show exactly how much emotional impact that branding can have. Marketers have long known that some brands have a seemingly magic appeal; they can elicit strong devotion, with buyers saying they identify with the brand as an extension of their personalities. The BrightHouse research is expected to show exactly which products those are. "This is really just the first step," says Meaux, who points out that no one has discovered a "buy button" in the brain. But with more and more companies peering into the minds of their consumers, could that be far off?

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...etc/neuro.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desh View Post
    For an ad campaign that started a revolution in marketing, the Pepsi Challenge TV spots of the 1970s and '80s were almost absurdly simple. Little more than a series of blind taste tests, these ads showed people being asked to choose between Pepsi and Coke without knowing which one they were consuming. Not surprisingly, given the sponsor, Pepsi was usually the winner.

    Mary Carmichael is a FRONTLINE web associate producer.


    But 30 years after the commercials debuted, neuroscientist Read Montague was still thinking about them. Something didn't make sense. If people preferred the taste of Pepsi, the drink should have dominated the market. It didn't. So in the summer of 2003, Montague gave himself a 'Pepsi Challenge' of a different sort: to figure out why people would buy a product they didn't particularly like.

    What he found was the first data from an entirely new field: neuromarketing, the study of the brain's responses to ads, brands, and the rest of the messages littering the cultural landscape. Montague had his subjects take the Pepsi Challenge while he watched their neural activity with a functional MRI machine, which tracks blood flow to different regions of the brain. Without knowing what they were drinking, about half of them said they preferred Pepsi. But once Montague told them which samples were Coke, three-fourths said that drink tasted better, and their brain activity changed too. Coke "lit up" the medial prefrontal cortex -- a part of the brain that controls higher thinking. Montague's hunch was that the brain was recalling images and ideas from commercials, and the brand was overriding the actual quality of the product. For years, in the face of failed brands and laughably bad ad campaigns, marketers had argued that they could influence consumers' choices. Now, there appeared to be solid neurological proof. Montague published his findings in the October 2004 issue of Neuron, and a cottage industry was born.

    Neuromarketing, in one form or another, is now one of the hottest new tools of its trade. At the most basic levels, companies are starting to sift through the piles of psychological literature that have been steadily growing since the 1990s' boom in brain-imaging technology. Surprisingly few businesses have kept tabs on the studies - until now. "Most marketers don't take a single class in psychology. A lot of the current communications projects we see are based on research from the '70s," says Justine Meaux, a scientist at Atlanta's BrightHouse Neurostrategies Group, one of the first and largest neurosciences consulting firms. "Especially in these early years, it's about teaching people the basics. What we end up doing is educating people about some false assumptions about how the brain works."

    Getting an update on research is one thing; for decades, marketers have relied on behavioral studies for guidance. But some companies are taking the practice several steps further, commissioning their own fMRI studies à la Montague's test. In a study of men's reactions to cars, Daimler-Chrysler has found that sportier models activate the brain's reward centers -- the same areas that light up in response to alcohol and drugs -- as well as activating the area in the brain that recognizes faces, which may explain people's tendency to anthropomorphize their cars. Steven Quartz, a scientist at Stanford University, is currently conducting similar research on movie trailers. And in the age of poll-taking and smear campaigns, political advertising is also getting in on the game. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have found that Republicans and Democrats react differently to campaign ads showing images of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. Those ads cause the part of the brain associated with fear to light up more vividly in Democrats than in Republicans.

    That last piece of research is particularly worrisome to anti-marketing activists, some of whom are already mobilizing against the nascent field of neuromarketing. Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a non-profit that argues for strict regulations on advertising, says that "a year ago almost nobody had heard of neuromarketing except for Forbes readers." Now, he says, it's everywhere, and over the past year he has waged a campaign against the practice, lobbying Congress and the American Psychological Association (APA) and threatening lawsuits against BrightHouse and other practitioners. Even though he admits the research is still "in the very preliminary stages," he says it could eventually lead to complete corporate manipulation of consumers -- or citizens, with governments using brain scans to create more effective propaganda.

    Ruskin might be consoled by the fact that many neuromarketers still don't know how to apply their findings. Increased activity in the brain doesn't necessarily mean increased preference for a product. And, says Meaux, no amount of neuromarketing research can transform otherwise rational people into consumption-driven zombies. "Of course we're all influenced by the messages around us," she says. "That doesn't take away free choice." As for Ruskin, she says tersely, "there is no grounds for what he is accusing." So far, the regulatory boards agree with her: the government has decided not to investigate BrightHouse and the APA's most recent ethics statement said nothing about neuromarketing. Says Ruskin: "It was a total defeat for us."

    With Commercial Alert's campaign thwarted for now, BrightHouse is moving forward. In January, the company plans to start publishing a neuroscience newsletter aimed at businesses. And although it "doesn't conduct fMRI studies except in the rarest of cases," it is getting ready to publish the results of a particularly tantalizing set of tests. While neuroscientist Montague's 'Pepsi Challenge' suggests that branding appears to make a difference in consumer preference, BrightHouse's research promises to show exactly how much emotional impact that branding can have. Marketers have long known that some brands have a seemingly magic appeal; they can elicit strong devotion, with buyers saying they identify with the brand as an extension of their personalities. The BrightHouse research is expected to show exactly which products those are. "This is really just the first step," says Meaux, who points out that no one has discovered a "buy button" in the brain. But with more and more companies peering into the minds of their consumers, could that be far off?

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...etc/neuro.html

    Once again...what does this prove...it is nothing more than a 'Hypothesis'!

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    I have the discovered that those in of your ilk dont know what proof is anymore which helps to explain this new science even further.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desh View Post
    I have the discovered that those in of your ilk dont know what proof is anymore which helps to explain this new science even further.
    In of your ilk? LOL.

    Anyho, neuropsychology and it's use in marketing is not new.

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    desk is pricelessly comical.
    Marketing makes people buy stuff.
    DUHH!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Topspin View Post
    desk is pricelessly comical.
    Marketing makes people buy stuff.
    DUHH!!!!
    Yes I know. A real riot.

    Let's practice some NLP on her. Nicely of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Said1 View Post
    In of your ilk? LOL.

    Anyho, neuropsychology and it's use in marketing is not new.
    as froggie said in the days deleted posts.

    ilk does a body good .


    oops that must have been neuro marketing....
    Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
    Proving tax cuts work!

    Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
    The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.

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