Tag: Retail

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Bleeding Needs: When Consumption Begets Consumption

At Sentient, we talk of a human behavioral driver we call “bleeding needs”. This represents an extension of a motivational phenomenon recently dubbed “reverse allesthesia” in the academic literature. Reverse allesthesia suggests that a sample of a good will increase the motivational drive to consume more of that good. In other words, a taste of […]