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- Humour Reduces Our Resistance To Aggressive Marketing
Whether it's messages on smartphone Apps or the old fashioned way on billboards, radio and TV, advertisers bombard us relentlessly. Fortunately, our brains have an inbuilt BS-detector that shields us from the onslaught - a mental phenomenon that psychologists...
- Richard Wiseman: Wit
I have no idea why I occasionally think funny things. For example, the other day I was watching the film "District 9", which is about an alien race known as "prawns", and thought "I wonder if the alien in charge is called a king prawn?". I would be the...
- Neuromarketing And "the Super Bowl Brain Scans"
This one's from Vaughan at Mind Hacks, who does a superb job of debunking this ridiculous exercise in publicity and hype. His post is reprinted below. No additional comments from The Neurocritic are needed. The 'complete results' from the...
- Optical Illusion
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- Hollywood's Usability Bloopers
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for December 18 is called Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers, and it pokes fun at computer user interfaces as depicted in the movies. Kind of funny, esp. the line from Jurassic Park in which a 12-year old says "This...
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- Humour Reduces Our Resistance To Aggressive Marketing
Whether it's messages on smartphone Apps or the old fashioned way on billboards, radio and TV, advertisers bombard us relentlessly. Fortunately, our brains have an inbuilt BS-detector that shields us from the onslaught - a mental phenomenon that psychologists...
- Richard Wiseman: Wit
I have no idea why I occasionally think funny things. For example, the other day I was watching the film "District 9", which is about an alien race known as "prawns", and thought "I wonder if the alien in charge is called a king prawn?". I would be the...
- Neuromarketing And "the Super Bowl Brain Scans"
This one's from Vaughan at Mind Hacks, who does a superb job of debunking this ridiculous exercise in publicity and hype. His post is reprinted below. No additional comments from The Neurocritic are needed. The 'complete results' from the...
- Optical Illusion
moar funny pictures...
- Hollywood's Usability Bloopers
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for December 18 is called Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers, and it pokes fun at computer user interfaces as depicted in the movies. Kind of funny, esp. the line from Jurassic Park in which a 12-year old says "This...