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December 8, 2012 05:00 pm PST
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Environmental psychology: Can stores trick us into buying more crap with scents like cookie, orange?
At Salon, Joel Smith writes about studies in which researchers set up camp at retail stores to see which scents had what kinds of subliminal behavioral effects on the buying habits of shoppers. "One was a simple orange scent; the other was a more complex blend of orange, basil and green tea," Smith writes. "In [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jyZ4fJp9fUM/environmental-psychology-can.html
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