Why Can You Remember an Advert You Hate?

Why Can You Remember an Advert You Hate? · 2:11 · Intellect Plus

In short: How a 1965 idea about repeated exposure led researchers to separate remembering an advert from liking it, and what boredom, reactance and association add to the picture.

A 2:11 short film in the series “Rabbit Hole: Memory, Preference and the Brain”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.

Sources used in this film: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Core), Journal of Advertising Research, published by the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), “Recognition, Recall, and Rating Scales | Journal of Advertising Research | Cambridge Core”; Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Core), Journal of Advertising Research (The ARF), “Measuring Affective Advertising: Implications of Low Attention Processing on Recall | Journal of Advertising Research | Cambridge Core”; American Psychological Association (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Monograph Supplement, 1968; copy hosted on MIT web server), “9_J_Personality_Social_Psychology_1_(Zajonc).pdf”; Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan (Robert B. Zajonc, Technical Report No. 34), “Theattitudinaleffects_2360_.PDF”; Psychological Bulletin (hosted on Ovid), “Exposure and Affect : Psychological Bulletin”; Florida International University (faculty research-abstract page summarising Cacioppo & Petty, 1979), “Microsoft Word - Research Abstract 7.2 What Happens When Messages Are Repeated.doc”; Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, “Advertising wearout: An experimental analysis”; Frontiers (Frontiers in Communication), “Frontiers | Psychological Reactance and Persuasive Health Communication: A Review of the Literature”; ERIC (Education Resources Information Center); the article itself is published by the American Psychological Association in Psychological Bulletin, “ERIC - EJ884805 - Evaluative Conditioning in Humans: A Meta-Analysis, Psychological Bulletin, 2010-May”.

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