William James wrote about deja vu experience over a century ago and cognitive psychologists have been studying the phenomenon for over 20 years. Researchers like Larry Jacobs at NYU have done fascinating work on the topic as a means to develop theoretical models of human recognition memory, formally known as dual-process models of recognition. This isn't exactly ground breaking research, but it is important in adding to the experimental corpus of knowledge about familiarity and recognition based memory systems; although the models may not be ameliorative, they do have import in understanding normal aging memory decline as well as abnormal memory impairments such as Alzheimer's disease.
So basically, people's self-importance is prohibiting them from realizing that they would be better off if the corporations were better able to meet their business objectives by deluging customers with an endless stream of ads which fabricate a sense of need or want for consumer tripe?
Also, your reliance on statistics is unwarranted--remember that they are wrong (at least) alpha percent of the time. Oh yeah, now that I think about it, statistics are often applied to non-experimental data in non-experimental settings where marketers are searching for a specific answer. With a little cherry-picking, a marketer can construct just about any message they want from their data.
Maybe the problem isn't with consumers' resistance to marketing tactics. Maybe Marketing's methods suck.
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William James wrote about deja vu experience over a century ago and cognitive psychologists have been studying the phenomenon for over 20 years. Researchers like Larry Jacobs at NYU have done fascinating work on the topic as a means to develop theoretical models of human recognition memory, formally known as dual-process models of recognition. This isn't exactly ground breaking research, but it is important in adding to the experimental corpus of knowledge about familiarity and recognition based memory systems; although the models may not be ameliorative, they do have import in understanding normal aging memory decline as well as abnormal memory impairments such as Alzheimer's disease.
So basically, people's self-importance is prohibiting them from realizing that they would be better off if the corporations were better able to meet their business objectives by deluging customers with an endless stream of ads which fabricate a sense of need or want for consumer tripe? Also, your reliance on statistics is unwarranted--remember that they are wrong (at least) alpha percent of the time. Oh yeah, now that I think about it, statistics are often applied to non-experimental data in non-experimental settings where marketers are searching for a specific answer. With a little cherry-picking, a marketer can construct just about any message they want from their data. Maybe the problem isn't with consumers' resistance to marketing tactics. Maybe Marketing's methods suck.