The hidden persuaders / Vance Packard ; with an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller.

By: Packard, Vance
Contributor(s): Miller, Mark Crispin -- introduction
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Ig Publishing, ©2007Description: 240 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780978843106 (pbk.)Subject(s): Advertising -- Psychological aspects | Consumers -- Psychology | Advertising, Political | Propaganda | Control (Psychology)DDC classification: 659.1 PAC
Contents:
1. The depth approach -- [pt. 1.] Persuading us as consumers -- 2. The trouble with people -- 3. So ad men become depth men -- 4. ... and the hooks are lowered -- 5. Self-images for everybody -- 6. RX for our secret distresses -- 7. Marketing eight hidden needs -- 8. The built-in sexual overtone -- 9. Back to the breast, and beyond -- 10. Babes in consumerland -- 11. Class and caste in the salesroom -- 12. Selling symbols to upward strivers -- 13. Cures for our hidden aversions -- 14. Coping with our pesky inner ear -- 15. The psycho-seduction of children -- 16. New frontiers for recruiting customers -- [pt. 2.] Persuading us as citizens -- 17. Politics and the image builders -- 18. Molding "team players" for free enterprise -- 19. The engineered yes -- 20. Care and feeding of positive thinkers -- 21. The packaged soul? -- [pt. 3.] In retrospect -- 22. The question of validity -- 23. The question of morality.
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Originally published in 1957 by McKay and reissued in 1980 by Pocket Books with a new afterword.

1. The depth approach --
[pt. 1.] Persuading us as consumers --
2. The trouble with people --
3. So ad men become depth men --
4. ... and the hooks are lowered --
5. Self-images for everybody --
6. RX for our secret distresses --
7. Marketing eight hidden needs --
8. The built-in sexual overtone --
9. Back to the breast, and beyond --
10. Babes in consumerland --
11. Class and caste in the salesroom --
12. Selling symbols to upward strivers --
13. Cures for our hidden aversions --
14. Coping with our pesky inner ear --
15. The psycho-seduction of children --
16. New frontiers for recruiting customers --
[pt. 2.] Persuading us as citizens --
17. Politics and the image builders --
18. Molding "team players" for free enterprise --
19. The engineered yes --
20. Care and feeding of positive thinkers --
21. The packaged soul? --
[pt. 3.] In retrospect --
22. The question of validity --
23. The question of morality.

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