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HIDDEN TRICKS ADVERTISERS USE TO SELL YOU STUFF


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HIDDEN TRICKS ADVERTISERS USE TO SELL YOU STUFF 
How do you decide which products you'll buy? Advertisers are constantly trying to 
appeal to consumers, usually without us even realizing it. In this non-fiction text, Liz 
Stinson explains the different techniques that advertisers use to manipulate behavior 
and convince people to buy their products. 
As you read, keep track of the different techniques advertisers use to convince 
people to buy things and how these techniques work. 
[1]Heineken Is playing a visual trick on adults every time they go to the beer aisle. 
They might not notice it at first, but in comparison to the other letters, the three “e”s in 
Heineken are slanted slightly backwards, their bottoms curved, grinning up at you with 
a toothless smile. “There’s nothing human about a typeface, but this slightly turned “e” 
gives the feeling of smiling,” says Marc Andrews, a creative director and psychologist 
from Amsterdam. “And this gives you a totally different relationship to the brand.” 
It’s a happy, oddly humanistic1 logo, and Heineken is hoping that will be enough to 
prompt people to grab its six pack over the king of beers.2 The brand’s tactic is subtle. 
So much so, people probably don’t notice it consciously, which is the entire point. 
We’re surrounded by visual cues nudging us to buy this or prodding us to do that, and 
most of the time we have no idea it’s even happening. 
In his new book Hidden Persuasion, Andrews, with social psychologists Matthijs van 
Leeuwen and Rick Baaren, explores 33 of the sneakiest tactics advertisers deploy while 
hawking3 their products. These hidden persuasions, as Andrews calls them, are a 


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driving force behind advertising world’s efficiency, and they’re way more common than 
you might think. 
"People think that their decisions and choices are most of the time made consciously 
and rational, relating to their wishes, interests and motivations," explains Andrews. 
"Fact is, that most of our decisions in daily life are made on an unconscious level, which 
means we are quite vulnerable to persuasion attempts which affect our 
unconsciousness." 
[5]We humans want all sorts of things. Some are intangible: Safety, health, the desire 
to fit in with our peers. Others are just stuff: That shiny car, some shoes, a hamburger. 
It’s the job of advertisers to make sure we buy this stuff, and the best way to do that? 
Exploit our inherent4 vulnerabilities. Advertisers have plenty of ways to manipulate our 
behavior. Below are some of the most effective techniques.Q1 

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