Vance Packard
Person on 3 sites
Journalist and social critic (1914 to 1996) whose The Hidden Persuaders (1957) exposed how advertisers used motivational research and depth psychology to…
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Marketers use psychiatry and social science to channel our habits, purchases and thinking (opens korrents.com)
“Large-scale efforts are being made, often with impressive success, to channel our unthinking habits, our purchasing decisions, and our thought processes by the use of insights gleaned from psychiatry and the social…”
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These persuasion efforts mostly work beneath our level of awareness (opens korrents.com)
“Typically these efforts take place beneath our level of awareness; so that the appeals which move us are often, in a sense, "hidden."”
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Persuaders probing our habits for hidden meanings reveal things about ourselves (opens korrents.com)
“The efforts of the persuaders to probe our everyday habits for hidden meanings are often interesting purely for the flashes of revelation they offer us of ourselves.”
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Marketers use psychiatry and social science to channel our habits, purchases and thinking (opens korrents.com)