Stratejik İletişim’e Pozitif Psikoloji Temelli Yaklaşımlar

“In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope”“Fabrika’da kozmetik ürünler üretiyoruz. Mağazada ümit satıyoruz.”(Charles Revson, founder of Revlon). Türk insanı olarak dramayı pek severiz. Öyle severiz ki, iletişim kampanyalarında hep damardan gireriz. Birkaç bebek, anne-çocuk, fakir hayatlar, göz yaşı da döktürttük mü… deymeyin keyfimize. Bu damarı yakaladık mı bırakmayız. Birbirinin aynısı kampanyalar, reklam filmleri ve sadece fikir bazlı hazırlanmış iletişim çalışmalarına maruz kalıp dururuz. Kuralları yıkmaya, iletişim alanında yenilikler yaratmaya, kurumsal iletişimi canlandırmaya biraz cesaretiniz varsa, buyrun o halde, iletişimde pozitif psikoloji laboratuarına… Stratejik İletişim’e Geleneksel Yaklaşımlar Reklam çalışmaları temelde bireylerin “mutsuzluğunu” hedef alır. Ürün ve […]

Beyond The 5 Senses

The world we experience is not the real world. It’s a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world change if we had new and different senses? Could they expand our universe? Technology has long been used to help people who have lost, or were born without, one of the five primary senses. More recently, researchers in the emerging field of “sensory enhancement” have begun developing tools to give people additional senses—ones that imitate those of other animals, or that add capabilities nature never imagined. Here’s how such devices could work, and how […]

The Science of Swaying Choices

One barrier to climate change is bad choice architecture. If we frame a fee as a “carbon offset” instead of a “carbon tax,” we could move people to make more environmentally friendly decisions. This term “choice architecture” was coined by Thaler and Sunstein (2008) and refers to the practice of influencing choice by changing the manner in which options are presented to people. For example, this can be done by setting defaults, framing, or adding decoy options. Default options are pre-set courses of action that take effect if nothing is specified by the decision maker (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008), and […]