Against Automaticity – Carcinisation

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An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…

An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any field with “behavioral” in its name are not real by a literal banana Nothing Works That Way Back in 2014, Kevin Simler published a provocative essay on the nature of advertising called “ Ads Don’t Work That Way .” I imagine most people reading this have read it, and if not they really should read it in its entirety, but I’ll summarize as a reminder. Some advertising wo

Against Automaticity – Carcinisation

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