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It’s fourth down with two yards to go. You’re facing the decision to punt the ball to Peyton Manning and Colts offense with a little over 2 minutes to play and giving your defense the chance to stop a touchdown drive, or to go for it and essentially end the game with a first down. […]
Take a moment and let your mind wander; inhale deeply, exhale, and find your neutral state. Now click play on the video below. You might want to turn down your speaker volume a little.
One might simply explain this as a conventional sibling relationship; the younger sibling almost always wants to do everything just like the older sibling. If this were the whole explanation, though, why would we be getting excited and happy too? Part of what’s happening for the little girl – and to a lesser degree, us, the almost-detached observer – is an explosion of activity in a group of nerves in the brain called “mirror neurons.”
Black Friday sales were up .5% from last year and retailers have high hopes for Cyber Monday. But the really good news for retailers might be yet to come: Interbrand noted that 51% of consumers said they will shop later this year and our own research bears that out: our shopper focus groups throughout November […]
At Sentient, we examine consumer associations with brands, including corporate and product brands as well as the brands of individual people. For example, Sentient used the Automatic Brand Association (ABA) methodology to reveal voters’ associations with presidential candidates before the 2008 election. The unconscious positive and negative associations with an individual’s brand has an impact […]
I love Starbucks coffee. I’m a brand lover for sure – I make several stops per day for their delicious dark roasted coffees. But I’m not a fan of their latest taste test for their new instant coffee (VIA™) because it stacks the deck in favor of their new product. This morning I promptly walked […]