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When marketing meets psychology

01/24/2012 By Leave a Comment

Have you ever noticed that when you watch a movie involving a car chase, a commercial comes on trying to sell you on an allegedly safe car? Yea, I didn’t notice that either. How about how most OTC sleep aids are a pale blue color? That one also passed me by.

When marketing meets psychology, we are all in trouble. Put together, it stacks the decks against you, as an educated consumer. You think you’re making an educated decision, but someone has already made that decision for you, and now they are just pushing you in the direction they want you to go. You are a marionette and marketers are pulling your strings.

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About Eileen Rivera

Eileen was born in The Bronx, to Puerto Rican parents. She grew up thinking the whole world was Latino. Moving to Rockland County in upstate New York taught her it wasn’t. One more move in 1976, brought her to Hudson County, New Jersey where she currently resides. She attended Rutgers-Newark where she majored in Social Work with a minor in Puerto Rican studies. Eileen credits her history professor, Dr. Olga Wagenheim, for the spark and impetus to search out her roots in a pre-computer era. The daughter of a minister, she credits her father for the activism, volunteerism and search for justice that have characterized her adult years.

The mother of two adult daughters, Eileen has worked in the Juvenile Justice system for twenty-eight years. She acts as a liaison between the Juvenile Detention Center and the Juvenile Court.

Writing was something she shared with family. Stories and songs for her children and Christmas tales for the extended family. She now shares her writing with a larger family, the Being Latino family.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be understood to be shared by Being Latino, Inc.

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