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The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) held its 12th annual meeting on January 27-29, 2011 in San Antonio, TX. The meeting highlighted the cutting-edge of social psychological research as well as charted a course for future research in the field. The conference included many symposia across a wide range of topic areas. One […]
The staff here at Sentient Decision Science, Inc. comes from disparate backgrounds and skill sets, and we are often able to achieve unique insights for our clients that lead to business-changing ideas because of our strong belief in the importance of integration.
In our recent paper on Hot State Decision-Making we discussed the perfect storm of providing consumers with immediate visceral delight while simultaneously providing emotional benefits relevant to long-term goals. This formula provides both short-term and long term benefit thereby maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain for your customer base. A recent article by Khan & Dhar […]
Sentient Decision Science has predicted the 2011 trends that will continue to transform the research industry and help shape the customer agenda for Global 2000 brands: Behavioral science will supplant traditional market research: Traditional market research is very good at describing what people have done, but has lacked insight into the true drivers of behavior. […]
The ESOMAR Qual 2010 held in Barcelona – City of Inspiration – challenged us to re-think how we deliver qualitative research findings. Jackie Hughes’s (Kellogg) keynote speech on opening day urged us not to deliver insights, which can be here-and-gone in a flash. Instead she suggested the notion of “continuous, daily enlightened thinking,” which is sustainable […]