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Real-life consumer psychology – with a touch of technology
Curated by
Leona Ungerer
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"Social media's fast growth has come with negative effects. Here are ways the metaverse could worsen these if it also takes a growth-first approach ..." 
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"I have a friend in graduate school who called me the other night because, she said, she felt like either the world was crazy or she was. As a part of her studies, she works with undergraduate students ..."
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"With a high court ruling spelling the end for cigarette branding in the UK, the industry has lost its last tool to entice young customers to take up the habit ..."
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"A community of anonymous high schoolers is raiding malls across the country and blogging about it. Who are they? ..."
Leona Ungerer's insight:
The dark side of consumer psychology ...
Sarah Swiat's curator insight,
December 13, 2015 2:27 PM
While a lot of teenagers have shoplifted at some point or another, these online communities are again controversial because they actually promote shoplifting. This brings up an interesting conversation of who is really being harmed here? Corporations? The teenagers themselves as they expose themselves to potentially becoming more criminal, going after bigger steals, and risking getting caught? I don't know if this is a millennial problem (every article blames something on being millennial), but I would feel concern that the teenagers could potentially ruin promising lives over stealing, especially those over 18. Maybe having sympathy with people who willingly engage in criminal activity is wrong, but it's important to note that as the middle class of America is shrinking, those living in poverty increase and that may have a profound effect on teens learning how to shoplift. Additionally, social media facilitates these desires. If you go to a relatively low-income school, you may not see many kids with expensive goods, but with social media you see many people putting out an "idealized" life with expensive clothes and accessories. This may encourage people to steal in order to fit in, and find communities that accept shoplifting as a hobby.
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"In one poll, nearly half of people who bank by phone admitted to checking their balances in the bathroom ..."
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"The Social Media Guard' is probably not a real product from the Coca-Cola Company, but this fake ad definitely offers an amusing solution to cure one's social media addiction ..."
Melissa Marshall's curator insight,
February 20, 2014 8:04 PM
How do you stop a social media addiction? Here's a funny ad to make you think about how often you look down at your phone. Might be good to show students during a Life Skills or Digital Citizenship lesson.
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"Hi, my name is Elise, and I am an affirmation addict. I realize that I am a living human on the planet earth, no matter how many likes I get..."
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"Every single thing you do online can help the social media powered car get to its destination. You can follow Minddrive on Twitter and give the car five social watts of power..."
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"With sports gambling now legal for millions of Americans, some commentators worry that the number of addicts is set to surge ..."
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"We now know people don’t have to be consciously aware that they are aroused for their reward system to highjack neural pathways. New research on addiction indicates social media “likes” and approval from others is changing the way we think and request plastic surgery. Welcome to 'Selfie Surgery'. ..."
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"As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems ..."
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"Starting on March 27, physicians in the state will have to write out prescriptions electronically, as part of an effort to reduce fraud and errors ..."
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"Online businesses nowadays always seem to know what we want and how to drive us toward their shopping carts, even when we are just on Facebook or browsing online ..."
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"In February, the Thai government psychiatrist Dr. Panpimol Wipulakorn warned that young people who don't get approval on social media risk destabilizing society ..."
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"The addiction many of us have to online shopping is a struggle, and the struggle is real..."
Kendra's curator insight,
November 23, 2020 1:50 PM
This article goes into the depth of online shopping and the warning signs to look out for if you're on the track of being a shopaholic, or if you're already an addicted shopaholic. this article states that ecommerce sales racked up to be about $289 billion in 2012. I could not imagine what that number currently is in 2020 especially in the current epidemic.
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"Smokers could soon be experiencing a new, unwelcome side effect to their unhealthy habit – hearing voices. Scottish researchers have created talking cigarette packets which inform addicts of the risks of tobacco use in case they had missed the prominent health warnings and gory pictures which already adorn the products..."
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