Persuade with Visual Metaphors

While we think of metaphors as mainly word-based, visual metaphors can be a potent selling tool. They can both engage the brain like text metaphors and stimulate the viewer's senses in a way that words alone may not.

Brainfluence in Korean

I returned from my speaking swing through South America last week to find a nice surprise from Wiley, my publisher: a few sample copies of Brainfluence in Korean. The cover, amusingly enough, features a brain in a bottle! I neither speak…

Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter

Book Review: Drunk Tank Pink, and Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave by Adam Alter In Drunk Tank Pink, Author Adam Alter uses his own research and that of others to show how we are all influenced by…

Musical Beans… Really!

Beans have a well-deserved reputation for being a multi-sensory product. Remember the "musical fruit" ditty? But it's no joking matter for Heinz, who teamed up with food artists Bompas & Parr to create a unique promotion for its Beanz…

Free Brainfluence via Libboo

Libboo, a startup that aims to encourage book discovery and recommendation sharing between like-minded readers, is offering 10 free electronic copies of my book Brainfluence. This is a first-come, first-served deal, as far as I can tell.

Cultural Differences in Reading Faces

The hottest new thing in neuromarketing is facial coding - the reading of fleeting facial expressions to determine true emotional reaction. Although the concept isn't new - it dates to Paul Ekman's groundbreaking research in the 1950s to…

RIP Google Reader – Do You Care?

I was surprised to hear that Google is killing off Google Reader. I've been a sporadic user for years, and I know many people still rely on RSS feeds to keep up with multiple blogs and other sites. At the same time, I suppose I fall into…

2013 Super Bowl Winners & Brain Movies

Sands Research has released their 2013 Super Bowl winners and losers, along with the "brain movies" to show how each ad lit up viewers' brains. For the first time that I can remember, the top spot was a tie - Coca-Cola "Security Camera"…