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Brandwashed Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy

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ISBN-10: 0385531737

ISBN-13: 9780385531733

Edition: 2011

Authors: Martin Lindstrom, Morgan Spurlock

List price: $36.00
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From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider#x19;s look at how today#x19;s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy. Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for over twenty years. Here, he turns the spotlight on his own industry, drawing on all he has witnessed behind closed doors, exposing for the first time the full extent of the psychological tricks and traps that companies devise to win our hard-earned dollars. Picking up from where Vance Packard's bestselling classic, The Hidden Persuaders, left off more than half-a-century ago, Lindstrom reveals: " New…    
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Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 9/20/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

John P Wilson is a researcher and consultant with 40 years' experience in education and training, including teaching from nursery education to PhD supervision. He also has extensive experience working with a range of international organizations including: the armed forces; aviation; civil service; banking; engineering; healthcare; international development; justice; manufacturing; media; nuclear power generation; national pensions and investment; oil; telecommunications and transportation. He currently teaches at the University of Oxford and the University of Sheffield.Martin Lindstrom is recognized as one of the world's primary branding gurus. He is the author of several best-selling…    

"Foreword
Introduction: A Brand Detox
Buy Buy Baby
When companies start marketing to us in the womb
Peddling Panic and Paranoia
Why fear sells
I Can't Quit You
Brand addicts, shopaholics, and why we can't live without our smart phones
Buy It, Get Laid
The new face of sex (and the sexes) in advertising
Under Pressure
The power of peers
Oh, Sweet Memories
The new (but also old) face of nostalgia marketing
Marketers' Royal flush
The hidden powers of celebrity and fame
Hope is a Jar
The price of health, happiness, and spiritual enlightenment
Every Breath You Me, They'll Be Watching You
The end of privacy
Conclusion
I'll have What Mrs. Morgenson Is Having
The most powerful hidden persuader of them all of us
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index