Neuromarketing & More

Our brains are amazing. And even if you’re not aware of it, your brain is like a code-cracking machine. I’m sure you’re familiar with the paragraph below, where the first and last letters of the word are correct but the rest of the letters are muddled. And you can still read it, right? “Aoccdrnig to […]

Nate Decker, Ph.D. Behavioral Scientist and Partner at Straylight’s partner Sentient Decision Science is  regularly asked what exactly “emotional association” data looks like and what to do with it. While the answer varies a lot by client, medium, and industry, understanding the basics is important. Decker wanted to provide some details on how to interpret […]

Marketing is the soul of the company, the link between an organization and the customers it serves. As I wrote in this article, most new product fails and vast sums of the advertising budget is wasted. The strange about this is I perceive it to be acceptable, it’s seen as the cost of doing business. […]

As winter is approaching it gets both darker and colder in Sweden.  Luckily for us the Nobel Prize festivities are about to begin which will brighten things up. This year the Nobel Prize in medicine goes to three scientists that have brought insights regarding neuroscience. As it turns out, their findings are highly related to […]

By quoting a famous ad man it’s easy to show Straylight’s belief regarding consumer behavior. “The trouble with market research is that consumers don’t think how they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say”. – David Ogilvy For you familiar with our articles, this isn’t anything new but […]

Winning people over requires learning the universal factors that go into how they make decisions To influence and persuade people are the core of marketing activity. How does it really work? Are we throwing things out into the universe and hoping that someone, somewhere will find our content influential and persuasive? Straylight likes new, and easily understood, […]

Many of the previous articles here on Top box have highlighted the importance of colors in images and colors of brands. This article is no exception. The choice of color is no coincidence and choosing the right color for your graphic profile and your brand is of great importance. Both color and shapes influence our […]

Steve Genco • May 16, 2014 •  You know an article is important if you find yourself coming back to it over and over again to help you think about different things and answer different questions. Such is the case with Paul Bloom’s provocative article “The War on Reason,” published in The Atlantic on February 19, 2014. Articles […]

Want to make your prices seem lower without actually changing them? I’ve got a research-based technique that will do exactly that, with one small catch: your prices will only look lower to your male customers. In a study titled Are Men Seduced by Red? The Effect of Red Versus Black Prices on Price Perceptions, researchers in the U.K. […]

When you are about to buy a new smartphone, you end up comparing different models against each other. They have basically the same technology. They look the same. It won’t really matter which you choose. So, you trust your gut feeling and make your decision. Why did the first one feel better than the second […]