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		<title>Subliminal Advertising: Should we be worried?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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In 1957, a gentleman by the name of James Vicary created a new concept: Subliminal advertising.  He flashed the words &#8220;Eat Popcorn&#8221; and &#8220;Drink Coca-Cola&#8221; for a fraction of a second during a film, and claimed increases in sales of these products of 18% and 57% respectively.
But, there&#8217;s one other thing that bugged me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make people &#8220;get with the program&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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You know those loyalty stamp cards you get in coffee shops?  Ever wondered why you get a few stamps free when you get them?  It&#8217;s because of something called the endowed progress effect -  you&#8217;re more likely to keep working towards a goal if you think you&#8217;ve already made some progress towards it.  So you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 simple ways to get more tips as a server</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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Being a waiter or waitress is hard work!  You&#8217;re on your feet all day, watching other people eat, laugh and have fun, and often the pay isn&#8217;t all that great; particularly in the US.  But, you have one ace in the hole &#8211; tips.  It is pretty much the norm these days to tip, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindless behaviour: How to skip to the front of a queue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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If there&#8217;s one thing us Brits are good at, it&#8217;s queuing.  We love it.  One day I want to get a few people and form a fake queue, leading directly to a brick wall, and see how many people we can get to join the queue.  I predict that this would work, and we could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happens when we label people?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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Ever been labelled?  Ever labelled someone yourself?  Everyone&#8217;s done both, sometimes it&#8217;s benign, sometimes it&#8217;s a good thing and sometimes it&#8217;s a bad thing.  It starts from an early age and continues through life - he&#8217;s a jock, he&#8217;s conscientious, she&#8217;s a troublemaker.  Assigning labels to things seems to be part of how our brain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to increase survey response rates using Post-It notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Persuasion and influence]]></category>

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I love Post-its.  I use them everyday, to leave myself reminders, as bookmarks, and sometimes to make little stick-man animations; just a small part of my productive and fulfilling private life!  And this youtube video showing creative uses of Post-its, is pretty cool.
But Post-its are not merely a tool of convenience and fun; they are also [...]]]></description>
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