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Martin Lindstrom – Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy [eBooks – 1 MOBI + 1 EPUB]Product Page: http://www.amazon.com/Brandwashed-Tricks-Companies-Manipulat…Description:Quote:Why do we always grab for the-second-newspaper-from-the-top of a stack of newspapers? When we talk on our cell phones why do most of us walk in a slowly decreasing circle? Do you know that “Competitive Altruism”–e.g. keeping up with that neighbor of ours who also owns a spiffy Prius–usually lies behind our decision to buy a bagful of organic apples and shut off the sprinkler?The strange ways in which we consumers walk, talk, and whip out our wallets underscore BrandWashed, Martin Lindstrom’s fascinating, entertaining, occasionally shocking expose of the drivers advertisers and marketers use to make us buy. I consider Martin a kindred spirit. He enjoys nothing more than uncovering the hidden incentives behind all kinds of human behavior and social phenomena, and the differences between how we say we act versus how we actually act (in econo-speak, we call this declared preferences versus revealed preferences).Marketing and advertising are smarty-pants industries. They know a whole lot about us. A global marketing guru for such companies as Pepsico, Disney, McDonald’s, and Microsoft, Martin takes us backstage to expose the ruses and tricks companies and marketers use to get us to spend mad money. Such as nostalgia, fear, peer pressure, celebrity, and the inclusion of magical ingredients and elixirs that promise to banish all human worry and make you look sixteen forever–well, at least until you die. Last but never least, there’s sex. I promise you’ll get a kick out of reading who the real audience for pretty-boy teen singers is, how men really respond to male-underwear ads, and the drunken research Unilever commissioned before the company rolled out its randy TV ads for Axe deodorant and body spray.Thanks to the original uploader!